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English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Abbreviation of alternative right, due to it being an alternative to conventional American right-wing and Republican ideologies. The word took its current meaning from a website called 'Alternative Right' created by Richard Spencer and Colin Liddell in 2010, being used only sporadically prior to 2010. The word became prominent in 2015 with the rise of Donald Trump.
Pronunciation
Noun
alt-right (countable and uncountable, plural alt-rights)
- (uncountable) An amorphous movement of right-wing, often white nationalist, people opposed to multiculturalism and egalitarianism by race and sex, mostly active on the Internet.
- Synonyms: alternative right, dissident right, far right
- Antonym: alt-left
- Coordinate terms: alt-left, alt-center, alt-light
2003 March 31, Andrew Reeves, “Re: VDI: William F. Buckley Jr.”, in soc.history.what-if (Usenet), retrieved 2016-11-16, message-ID <[email protected]>:So a right without a Buckley will probably be smaller, and uglier to boot. I would expect this alt-right to be a lot more vigorously opposed to the civil rights movement than OTL's. It will also be much less relevant, and probably not snag a certain Californian actor. I predict, then, that America, on the whole, looks a bit more like a Western European social democracy, but with a right wing that looks (hmm...thinking...) well, looks almost fascist.
2016 August 14, Ross Douthat, “A Playboy for President”, in The New York Times:"But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and 'woke' dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate on the all-female 'Ghostbusters' and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay."
- (countable, rare) A member of the alt-right; an alt-righter.
Derived terms
Translations
group of right-wing ideologies
- Arabic: اليمين البديل m or f (al-yamīn al-badīl)
- Basque: eskuin alternatibo
- Catalan: dreta alternativa f
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 另類右派/另类右派 (lìnglèi yòupài)
- Czech: alternativní pravice f
- Danish: alternative højre, alt-right
- Dutch: alt-right (nl) n
- Finnish: alt-right (fi), vaihtoehto-oikeisto sg, vaihtoehtoinen oikeisto sg
- French: alt-droite, alt-right (fr), droite alternative américaine f
- German: alternative Rechte f, alt-right
- Greek: εναλλακτική δεξιά f (enallaktikí dexiá)
- Hindi: आल्ट-सही f (ālṭ-sahī)
- Hungarian: alternatív jobboldal sg, alt-jobb sg
- Japanese: オルタナ右翼 (orutana uyoku), オルト・ライト (oruto raito)
- Korean: 대안우파(代案右派) (daeanupa)
- Malay: sayap kanan alternatif, alt-right
- Norwegian: alternativhøyre n, alt-right
- Polish: alt-right, neoreakcja f
- Portuguese: direita alternativa f, alt-right
- Russian: альтернативные правые m pl (alʹternativnyje pravyje), альт-правые m pl (alʹt-pravyje), альт-райт (ru) (alʹt-rajt)
- Serbo-Croatian: alternativna desnica f
- Slovak: alternatívna pravica f
- Spanish: derecha alternativa f
- Swedish: alt-högern c pl, alt-right
- Ukrainian: альтернативні праві n (alʹternatyvni pravi), альт-праві n (alʹt-pravi)
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Adjective
alt-right (comparative more alt-right, superlative most alt-right)
- Of or pertaining to the alt-right.
References
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English alt-right.
Pronunciation
Noun
alt-right n (uncountable)
- alt-right
Adjective
alt-right (not comparable)
- alt-right
Inflection