SLAV
| Pronunciation: | | slâv
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- [n] any member of the people of Eastern Europe or Russian Asia who speak a Slavonic language
- [adj] speaking a Slavic language; "the Slav population of Georgia"
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| | See Also: | | Croat, Croatian, human, individual, mortal, person, Serb, Serbian, Slavic people, Slavic race, somebody, someone, Sorbian, soul | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Slav\, n.;pl. {Slavs}. [A word originally meaning,
intelligible, and used to contrast the people so called with
foreigners who spoke languages unintelligible to the Slavs;
akin to OSlav. slovo a word, slava fame, Skr. [,c]ru to hear.
Cf. {Loud}.] (Ethnol.)
One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and
Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians,
Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or
Sorbs, Slovaks, etc. [Written also {Slave}, and {Sclav}.]
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