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Zionism

noun · 5 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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  • /ˈzaɪəˌnɪzəm/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

Jewish nationalism, the movement which supported first the establishment of a Jewish homeland and now supports the continuation of Israel as a Jewish state.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: government, politics

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A religion practiced throughout sub-Saharan Africa, most popular in Swaziland, consisting of a mixture of Protestantism and animism.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A Christian eschatological concept that links the migration of Jews to Palestine with apocalyptic events.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: policy

5

noun

Meaning 5

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

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Zionist movement

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: movement, social movement, front

History

Etymology

Etymology tree Biblical Hebrew צִיּוֹן (ṣiyyôn)bor. Koine Greek Σῑών (Sīṓn)bor. Ecclesiastical Latin Sīōnbor. Old English Syon Middle English Sion Early New High German Zioninflu. English Zion Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íďďō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism German Zionismuscalq. English Zionism From Zion + -ism, calqued in analogy to German Zionismus, coined by Nathan Birnbaum in 1890.

Across languages

Translations

88 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: sionizëm — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Arabic: صَهْيُونِيَّة (ṣahyūniyya) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Arabic: صِهْيُونِيَّة (ṣihyūniyya) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Arabic: صُهْيُونِيَّة (ṣuhyūniyya) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Arabic: صِهْيَوْنِيَّة (ṣihyawniyya) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Aragonese: sionismo — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Armenian: սիոնիզմ (sionizm) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Asturian: sionismu — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Azerbaijani: sionizm — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Belarusian: сіяні́зм (sijanízm) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Bengali: সিয়োনবাদ (śiẏōnbad) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Breton: sionouriezh — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Breton: sionegezh — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Bulgarian: циони́зъм (cionízǎm) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Catalan: sionisme — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Cherokee: ᏌᏯᏂᎤᏃᎯᏳ (sayaniunohiyu) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Chinese Mandarin: 猶太復國主義 /犹太复国主义 (Yóutài-fùguózhǔyì) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Chinese Mandarin: 錫安主義 /锡安主义 (Xī'ān-zhǔyì) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Czech: sionismus — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Danish: zionisme — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Dutch: zionisme — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Esperanto: cionismo — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Estonian: sionism — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Finnish: sionismi — Jewish nationalist movement
  • French: sionisme — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Galician: sionismo — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Georgian: სიონიზმი (sionizmi) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • German: Zionismus — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Bavarian German: Zionismus — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Greek: σιωνισμός (sionismós) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Haitian Creole: syonis — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Hebrew: ציונות \ צִיּוֹנוּת (tsiyonút) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Hindi: यहूदीवाद (yahūdīvād) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Hindi: सियोनवाद (siyonvād) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Hindi: सीयनीज़म (sīyanīzam) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Hungarian: cionizmus — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Ido: cionismo — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Interlingua: sionismo — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Irish: Siónachas — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Italian: sionismo — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Japanese: シオニズム (shionizumu) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Kazakh: сионизм (sionizm) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Korean: 시오니즘 (sionijeum) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Korean: 시온주의 (sionjuui) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Central Kurdish: زایۆنیزم (zayonîzm) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Northern Kurdish: siyonîzm — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Kyrgyz: сионизм (sionizm) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Ladino: sionizmo — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Latvian: cionisms — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Lithuanian: sionizmas — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Macedonian: ционизам (cionizam) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Malay: zionisme — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Manx: Seionaght — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Norwegian Bokmål: sionisme — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: sionisme — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Pashto: صهيونيت (sayhunyát) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Pashto: صهيونيزم (sahyūnízǝm) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Pashto: زاینيزم (zāyanízm) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Pashto: زيونيزم (zayonízam) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Persian: صهیونیسم (sahyunism) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Polish: syjonizm — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Portuguese: sionismo — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Romanian: sionism — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Russian: сиони́зм (sionízm) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Scots: Zionism — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Serbo-Croatian: ционѝзам — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Serbo-Croatian: cionìzam — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Slovak: sionizmus — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Slovene: sionizem — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Spanish: sionismo — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Swahili: Uzayuni — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Swedish: sionism — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Tagalog: Sayonismo — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Tajik: сионизм (sionizm) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Thai: ไซออนิสต์ (sai-ɔɔ-nít) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Turkish: siyonizm — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Turkish: siyonculuk — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Ukrainian: сіоні́зм (sionízm) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Urdu: صہیونیت (sahyuniyat) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Urdu: صیہونیت (saīhūniyat) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Uzbek: sionizm — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa Xi-ôn — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa Xi-ôn-nít — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Vietnamese: chủ nghĩa phục quốc Do Thái — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Volapük: siunim — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Welsh: Seioniaeth — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Yiddish: ציעניזם (tsienizm) — Jewish nationalist movement
  • Yiddish: ציוניזם (tsienizm) — Jewish nationalist movement
Real reading context

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