Pan-Slavism

American  

[pan-slah-viz-uhm, -slav-iz-] / ˌpænˈslɑ vɪz əm, -ˈslæv ɪz- /

noun

1. the idea or advocacy of a political union of all the Slavic peoples.

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Pan-Slavism British  

noun

1. (esp in the 19th century) the movement for the union of the Slavic peoples, esp under the hegemony of tsarist Russia

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Other Word Forms

• Pan-Slav
  adjective
• Pan-Slavic
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of Pan-Slavism

First recorded in 1840–50; pan- + Slavism

Example Sentences

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Pan-Slavism

The second was fear of Pan-Slavism, which was rooted in many Europeans, especially Germans and Scandinavians, long before Karl Marx was born.

From Time Magazine Archive

The word "Pan-Slavism" appears to mean common action or interest among all who speak the Slav tongues, and similarly suggests some ethnological bond of kinship.

From South America and the War by F. A. (Frederick Alexander) Kirkpatrick

Asia affected by, 237; military potency of, 238, 240 Pan-Mongolism, 28 Pan-Nordic union, 200 Pan-Slavism, 169, 201, 203 Paraguay, 110 Paris, 99, 122, 216 Pax Americana, 4 Pax Romana, 170 Peace Conference.

From The Rising Tide of Color Against White World-Supremacy by Lothrop Stoddard

Every nation has its own variety of it; in England it is Jingoism, in France Chauvinism, in Italy Irredentism, in Russia Pan-Slavism, and so on.

From The War and Democracy by

Pangermans of the Spree and the Main, who, on the other side of the frontier, receive the fraternal effusions of Russian Pan-Slavism, Italian irredentism, English imperialism, French nationalism!

From The European Anarchy by G. Lowes (Goldsworthy Lowes) Dickinson