Definitions for loyalists

loyalists loy·al·ist

Spelling: [loi-uh-list]
IPA: /ˈlɔɪ ə lɪst/

Loyalists is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 304 anagrams from letters in loyalists (aillossty).

Definitions for loyalists

noun

  1. a person who is loyal; a supporter of the sovereign or of the existing government, especially in time of revolt.
  2. (sometimes initial capital letter) a person who remained loyal to the British during the American Revolution; Tory.
  3. (initial capital letter) an adherent of the republic during the Spanish Civil War, opposed to Franco.

Origin of loyalists

First recorded in 1640-50; loyal + -ist

Examples for loyalists

A Tory pamphleteer of the time gives us the loyalist view of the affair.

A loyalist in grain, he bitterly opposed the rebellion of the colonists.

Longworth was born in 1783 to loyalist parents in Newark, New Jersey.

The Foundation of Sirte, a local NGO, says that Abdul had no record of having been an active Gaddafi loyalist.

But Assad loyalist strongholds and natural advantages in the surrounding mountains, can they take it?

He held a copy of the first number of The loyalist in his hand.

The loyalist cannot do this, and consequently must sell a little dearer.

Would she, daughter of a loyalist, deign to notice him, a rebel?

Beinart describes a Netanyahu loyalist and a right-winger—which is what the Israeli electorate endorsed twice.

Upon being captured, Libyan forces tried to load him into a vehicle when loyalist forces engaged in a gunfight.

Word Value for loyalists
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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