Meanings
- uncountableThe Serbs, as a people, seen as constituting a unified cultural or political community.
In those dark times what consoled him was Serbdom, the comity of all Serbs who know their sacrifices and do not regret them.
2003, William Jovanovich, The Temper of the West, page 1062 more examples
The dilemma arose from what nationalists perceived as an intolerable disjuncture between the broad geographical extent of Serbdom—the imagined community of Serbs—and the Serbian state as a territorial homeland.
2011, Gerard Toal, Carl T Dahlman, Bosnia Remade, page 53Serbia had needed the nationalist networks in the past and would depend on them again when the moment came, as Pašić knew it some day would, to redeem Bosnia and Herzegovina for Serbdom.
2012, Christopher Clark, The Sleepwalkers, Penguin, published 2013, page 62
Origin
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Serbdom. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Serbdom
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