Czechoslovakist

English

Etymology

From Czechoslovak +‎ -ist.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌtʃɛkoʊˈslɑvəkɪst/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌtʃɛkəʊˈsləvəkɪst/

Noun

Czechoslovakist (plural Czechoslovakists)

1. (historical) A supporter of the former state of Czechoslovakia; a Czechoslovak nationalist.
   • 2003, Zoltan G. Mesko, The Silent Conspiracy: A Communist Model of Political Cleansing at the Slovak University in Bratislava After the Second World War, Boulder, C.O.: East European Monographs, →ISBN, page 23:

     In the Department of Internal Medicine, Dr. Ladislav Dérer was Filo's professional rival. He was the younger brother of Dr. Ivan Dérer, a Budapest-trained lawyer and ardent Czechoslovakist, who did not speak very fondly of his Slovak brethren.

Adjective

Czechoslovakist (comparative more Czechoslovakist, superlative most Czechoslovakist)

1. (historical) Supporting the former state of Czechoslovakia; relating to or involving Czechoslovakism.
   • 2001, Abby Innes, Czechoslovakia: The Short Goodbye, New Haven, C.N., London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 298:

     This peculiar ire against Petr Pithart was in retaliation to his highly conciliatory television speech on 9 November. Pithart had acknowledged not only the flaws of Czechoslovakist ideology, declaring that the conception of the Czechoslovak federation in 1969 had been 'strange and not too democratic', but he had also identified widespread Czech paternalism.

Related terms

• Czechoslovakism