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Eurocommunism

noun

Eurocommunism is a noun meaning “An ideological trend within various Western European communist parties in the 1970s and 1980s; a form of communism less aligned with Soviet communism…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled E-U-R-O-C-O-M-M-U-N-I-S-M, and it appears about once in every 52 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).

What does Eurocommunism mean?

noun

  1. 1

    An ideological trend within various Western European communist parties in the 1970s and 1980s; a form of communism less aligned with Soviet communism and allegedly more relevant to Western European social conditions.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is Eurocommunism?

Eurocommunism appears about once in every 52 million words in written English, the 225,584th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Eurocommunism in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense trend:

LanguageWords
Frencheurocommunisme
Portugueseeurocomunismo
Spanisheurocomunismo

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does Eurocommunism come from?

From Euro- + communism.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).