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pan-Serb en · ADJ

Etymology

From pan- + Serb.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to the unity of Serbs across the Balkan Peninsula; especially, adhering to cultural or political projects to further such unity.
    • Jovanović, for one thing, was […] a senior pan-Serb activist with the classical career profile of an ultra-nationalist. 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 61:
    • As for Bosnian Serbs, they still focus on the alluring aspirations of a pan-Serb center, aspirations that are directly opposed to the unification of Bosnia. 2003, Rusmir Mahmutćehajić, Sarajevo Essays, page 55:
    • Ultimately, Nicholas aspired to a pan-Serb ideal, desiring nothing less than the resurrection of the medieval Serb empire with himself upon Dusan's throne. 1983, John D Treadway, The Falcon and the Eagle, page 8:

Deriveds

pan-Serbism