noun

• A supporter of the Irish unionist party Sinn Fein or its policies.

  ‘he claimed to be a Sinn Feiner’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Da has been chosen to be the election agent for a Dublin Sinn Feiner.’
  • ‘He joined Belfast City Council, the first Sinn Feiner to be elected in east Belfast.’
  • ‘They mistook him for his namesake, a Sinn Feiner.’
  • ‘Mainstream Sinn Feiners were very disparaging of his decision.’
  • ‘He was an open sympathizer with the Sinn Feiners.’
  • ‘In 1919, frustration over the lack of Home Rule led the Irish Sinn Feiners to form their own parliament, known as Dail Eireann.’