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 (first-person possessive sauvinismeku, second-person possessive sauvinismemu, third-person possessive sauvinismenya)

  1. (politics) chauvinism

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