Serbdom

Serbdom

See also: Serbiandom

English

Etymology

From Serb +‎ -dom.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈsəːbdəm/

Noun

Serbdom (uncountable)

1. The Serbs, as a people, seen as constituting a unified cultural or political community.
   • 2003, William Jovanovich, The Temper of the West, p. 106:

     In those dark times what consoled him was Serbdom, the comity of all Serbs who know their sacrifices and do not regret them.

   • 2011, Gerard Toal and Carl T Dahlman, Bosnia Remade, p. 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.

   • 2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin 2013, p. 62:

     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

• Serbhood
• Serbism
• Serbness

Translations

state of being a Serb (both Balkan and Lusatian)

Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ср̀пство Roman: sr̀pstvo (sh) Sorbian: Upper Sorbian: serbstwo Lower Sorbian: serbstwo

Anagrams

• sombred