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Sclavism

Sclavism is the archaic form of Slavism.

Meaning of Slavism

Noun

Slavism (countable and uncountable, plural Slavisms)

  1. (countable, rhetoric) A linguistic feature of one or more Slavic languages, especially a Slavic idiom or phrasing that appears in a non-Slavic language.
  2. (uncountable, usually) An attitude, custom, or other feature that is characteristically Slavic.
  3. (uncountable, usually) Esteem for and emulation of Slavic culture and politics.

Origin of Sclavism

From Sclav + -ism.

Questions about Sclavism

What is Sclavism the archaic form of?
Sclavism is the archaic form of Slavism.

Words near Sclavism in the dictionary

  1. Sclav
  2. Sclave
  3. Sclaves
  4. Sclavia
  5. Sclavic
  6. Sclavism
  7. Sclavonian
  8. Sclavonians
  9. Sclavonic
  10. Sclavonick
  11. Sclavs

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Sclavism (page history and authors); Slavism (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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