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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A movement advocating the political and cultural union of Slavic nations and peoples.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The plan of or a desire for a unity of civilization and literature among Slavic peoples.
  • noun A scheme or movement for effecting the union of all Slavic peoples in a confederation under the hegemony of Russia (or, as some propose, under the hegemony of a resuscitated Poland).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A scheme or desire to unite all the Slavic races into one confederacy.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A movement aimed at uniting all the Slavic peoples.

Etymologies

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pan- + Slav + -ism

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