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zionism
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun zionism has 2 senses
- zionism(n = noun.communication) Array - a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine; Array is a kind of policy
- zionism(n = noun.group) zionist movement - a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine; Array is a kind of front, movement, social movement
Derived form noun zionist1
Derived form noun zionist1
CIDE DICTIONARY
zionism, n. [Zion + -ism.].
Among the Jews, a theory, plan, or movement for colonizing their own race in Palestine, the land of Zion, or, if that is impracticable, elsewhere, either for religious or nationalizing purposes; -- called also Zion movement . [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
zionism, n. a movement (orig.) for the reestablishment and (now) the development of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.
Derivative
Zionist n.
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