sauvinisme

Indonesian

Etymology

From Dutch chauvinisme, from French chauvinisme (“idealistic devotion to Napoleon”), named for Nicolas Chauvin, a legendary and excessively patriotic soldier of the French First Republic. Reconstructed as sauvinis +‎ -isme.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sauviˈnɪsmə]
  • Hyphenation: sau‧vi‧nis‧mê

Noun

sauvinisme (plural sauvinisme-sauvinisme)

  1. (politics) chauvinism

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