Serbdom en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ˈsəːbdəm/ (UK)
Etymology
From Serb + -dom.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The Serbs, as a people, seen as constituting a unified cultural or political community.
Serbia had needed the nationalist networks in the past and would depend on them again when the moment came, as Pašić knew it some day would, to redeem Bosnia and Herzegovina for Serbdom.
2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 62:In those dark times what consoled him was Serbdom, the comity of all Serbs who know their sacrifices and do not regret them.
2003, William Jovanovich, The Temper of the West, page 106:The dilemma arose from what nationalists perceived as an intolerable disjuncture between the broad geographical extent of Serbdom—the imagined community of Serbs—and the Serbian state as a territorial homeland.
2011, Gerard Toal, Carl T Dahlman, Bosnia Remade, page 53:
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Translations (4)
sh ср̀пство (state of being a Serb (both Balkan and Lusatian)) · dsb serbstwo (state of being a Serb (both Balkan and Lusatian)) · hsb serbstwo (state of being a Serb (both Balkan and Lusatian)) · sh sr̀pstvo (state of being a Serb (both Balkan and Lusatian))