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Slavdom en · NOUN

Etymology

From Slav + -dom.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Slavic peoples collectively, Slavs as a body.
    • A grandiloquent proclamation was posted in the town: "To you Prussians, we, the representatives of Russia, turn as the forecomers of united Slavdom," etc., etc., but in reality spirits were low, and soon news was received of the defeat of the 1st Russian Corps at Usdau. 1921, Sir Alfred William Fortescue Knox, With the Russian Army, 1914-1917, volume 1, page 84:
  2. (uncountable) The area inhabited by Slavs, or with Slavic influence.

Relateds

Slavhood · Slavness

Translations (6)

pl Słowiańszczyzna (Slavic people collectively, Slavs as a body) · uk слов'янщина (the area inhabited by Slavs, or with Slavic influence) · pl Słowiańszczyzna (the area inhabited by Slavs, or with Slavic influence) · ru славянщина (the area inhabited by Slavs, or with Slavic influence) · ru славянщизна (the area inhabited by Slavs, or with Slavic influence) · be славяншчына (the area inhabited by Slavs, or with Slavic influence)