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Serbdom
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Serbiandom
English
Etymology
From en Serb dom.
Pronunciation
en /ˈsəːbdəm/ UK
Noun
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The Serbs, as a people, seen as constituting a unified cultural or political community.
en 2003 w:William Jovanovich The Temper of the West 106 In those dark times what consoled him was Serbdom, the comity of all Serbs who know their sacrifices and do not regret them.
en 2011 Gerard Toal; Carl T Dahlman Bosnia Remade 53 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.
en 2012 w:Christopher Clark The Sleepwalkers 62 Penguin 2013 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.
Related terms
en Serbhood
en Serbism
en Serbness
Translations
state of being a Serb (both Balkan and Lusatian)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: sh ср̀пство
Latin: sh sr̀pstvo
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: dsb serbstwo
Upper Sorbian: hsb serbstwo
Anagrams
en bdemors sombred