Word.ws English Dictionary

zadruga

/zæˈdɹuːɡə/

zadruga noun: a social unit of rural community among the South Slavs, associated with family links and set customs.

Noun

zadruga (plural zadrugas or zadruge)

  1. A social unit of rural community among the South Slavs, associated with family links and set customs.
    • Byzantine culture was forced to retreat in the face of a way of life based on the extended family commune or zadruga, which was further organised around loose tribal areas known as županije.2007, Elizabeth Roberts, Realm of the Black Mountain, Hurst & Co, published 2007, pages 7–8

Forms of zadruga

pluralzadrugas
pluralzadruge

Origin of zadruga

From Serbo-Croatian zȃdruga/за̑друга (“commune”).

Questions about zadruga

What does zadruga mean?
Zadruga means a social unit of rural community among the South Slavs, associated with family links and set customs.
What part of speech is zadruga?
Zadruga is a noun.
How do you pronounce zadruga?
Zadruga is pronounced /zæˈdɹuːɡə/.
What is the plural of zadruga?
The plural of zadruga is zadrugas.

Words near zadruga in the dictionary

  1. Zadoq
  2. zadovite
  3. Zadoyan
  4. Zadoyans
  5. Zadracarta
  6. zadruga
  7. zadrugas
  8. zadruge
  9. zads
  10. zaerthe
  11. Zafar

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: zadruga (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “zadruga.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/zadruga. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.