English Explanatory Dictionary

Balkanism

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A word, phrase or other linguistic or cultural feature originating or being geographically confined to the region of Balkans.
  2. Discourse promoting the pejorative political and cultural stereotype of the Balkans.
noun
  1. Alternative letter-case form of Balkanism.

Word forms

Balkanism Balkanisms

Etymology

From Balkan + -ism. The political meaning was coined by Maria Todorova in 1997 in her work Imagining the Balkans.

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