It has later adopted two distinct connotations, the first being the aforementioned supra-ethnic meaning, and the second as a general term for all citizens of the former Czechoslovakia regardless of ethnicity.
[citation needed] The Czech–Slovak language group was summarized under the term "Bohemian–Moravian–Slovak" (Böhmisch-Mährisch-Slowakisch) in the Austrian census of Cisleithania beginning in the 1880s.
František Palacký, Ján Kollár and Karel Havlíček Borovský have already begun to promote the concept of a united nation in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown and in Slovakia (Upper Hungary).
[4] This idea persisted in society for a remarkably long time, surviving even during the First Czechoslovak Republic.
Only then did the population begin to abandon the idea (the concept of Czechoslovakism officially applied until 1948).
[citation needed] According to the results of the 1910 census, 6,435,983 members of the Czech-Moravian-Slovak language were found in Cisleithania.