Slavdom

English

Etymology

From Slav +‎ -dom.

Noun

Slavdom (uncountable)

  1. Slavic peoples collectively, Slavs as a body.
    • 1921, Sir Alfred William Fortescue Knox, With the Russian Army, 1914-1917, volume 1, page 84:
      A grandiloquent proclamation was posted in the town: "To you Prussians, we, the representatives of Russia, turn as the forecomers of united Slavdom," etc., etc., but in reality spirits were low, and soon news was received of the defeat of the 1st Russian Corps at Usdau.
  2. The area inhabited by Slavs, or with Slavic influence.

Translations

Slavic people collectively, Slavs as a body
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