ZIONISM

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Zionism mean? 

• ZIONISM (noun)
  The noun ZIONISM has 2 senses:

1. a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine

2. a movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine

  Familiarity information: ZIONISM used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ZIONISM (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Zionism" is a kind of...):

policy (a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government)

Derivation:

Zionist (a Jewish supporter of Zionism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A movement of world Jewry that arose late in the 19th century with the aim of creating a Jewish state in Palestine

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Zionism; Zionist movement

Hypernyms ("Zionism" is a kind of...):

front; movement; social movement (a group of people with a common ideology who try together to achieve certain general goals)

Derivation:

Zionist (a Jewish supporter of Zionism)