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Catalanism

Catalanism noun: patriotic feeling of being Catalan.

Noun

Catalanism (countable and uncountable, plural Catalanisms)

  1. (uncountable) Patriotic feeling of being Catalan.
    • Catalanism is, above all, a Barcelona affair.1930, Salvador de Madariaga, Spain, quoted in OED, page 304
  2. (countable, rhetoric) A word or phrase typically used in Catalan-speaking areas.
    • Gallicisms (including Provençalisms and Catalanisms)[…]1958, Archivum Linguisticum, quoted in OED

Forms of Catalanism

pluralCatalanisms

Origin of Catalanism

From Catalan + -ism. First attested in 1930.

Questions about Catalanism

What does Catalanism mean?
Catalanism means patriotic feeling of being Catalan.
What part of speech is Catalanism?
Catalanism is a noun.
What is the plural of Catalanism?
The plural of Catalanism is Catalanisms.

Words near Catalanism in the dictionary

  1. Catalan surface
  2. Catalan surfaces
  3. Catalan's constant
  4. Catalan-Valencian-Balear
  5. Catalanic
  6. Catalanism
  7. Catalanisms
  8. Catalanist
  9. Catalanists
  10. Catalanization
  11. Catalanizations

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Catalanism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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