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Estonification

Estonification noun: the act or process of Estonifying.

Noun

Estonification (uncountable)

  1. the act or process of Estonifying.
    • The recent Estonification of the party and government leadership seems to reflect a conscious policy1978, Tönu Parming, Elmar Järvesoo, A Case study of a Soviet Republic: the Estonian SSR
    • Today the popular fronts, in an effort to reassure the ethnic minorities living in the Baltics, insist that the rights of non-Balts were respected, and that, despite Estonification, Latvianization and Lithuanianization, will be respected again.1992, Clare Thomson, The singing revolution: a political journey through the Baltic States

Origin of Estonification

From Estonia + -ification.

Questions about Estonification

What does Estonification mean?
Estonification means the act or process of Estonifying.
What part of speech is Estonification?
Estonification is a noun.

Words near Estonification in the dictionary

  1. Estonianizes
  2. Estonianizing
  3. Estonianness
  4. Estonians
  5. Estonias
  6. Estonification
  7. Estonified
  8. Estonifies
  9. Estonify
  10. Estonifying
  11. Estons

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