In 2018 we celebrated the hundredth anniversary of Poland regaining independence, which is whyit seems important to consider the most recent meanings of the notion of patriotism. This paper isan attempt to confront dictionary definitions of “patriotism” lexeme with the resources of the NationalCorpus of the Polish Language PWN, examples of modern literary texts, press and Internetdiscourse, as well as recorded conversations and ephemeral prints included therein. The notionsof patriotism and patriots are currently used not only for political, religious and cultural as well asnationalistic purposes, but also for those humorous and hard-hitting ones. The theoretical frameworkof this article is determined by selected aspects of the linguistic tradition of valuation, based on thepoints where linguistics and axiology intersect. The linguistic analysis allows the observation of themost recent contexts of patriotism and the changes taking place in discourse.