English Explanatory Dictionary

folkdom

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. character of a people, folklore, that which defines a people’s original nature and culture (or an individual's tie to it)
  2. matters to do with German minorities outside the Reich as well as Germanization and colonization (cf. blood and soil)

Word forms

folkdom

Etymology

From folk + -dom, a calque of German Volkstum. In German, only sense 2 is associated with Nazism.

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