PAN-GERMANISM


Meaning of PAN-GERMANISM in English

ˈpan+ noun

( -s )

Usage: usually capitalized P&G

Etymology: French pangermanisme (translation of German alldeutschtum ), from pan- + germanisme Germanism, from Germanie Germany (from Latin Germania land occupied by the Germanic peoples in western Europe in Roman times) + -isme -ism

1. : a chiefly 19th century movement having as its principal aim the political union of all Germans

2. : a 20th century doctrine of German racial superiority and world domination by stages of imperial expansion

Webster's New International English Dictionary.      Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster.