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slav

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Slav  \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}.] 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  Slav 
  adj  :  speaking  a  Slavic  language;  "the  Slav  population  of  Georgia" 
  [syn:  {Slav}] 
  n  :  any  member  of  the  people  of  Eastern  Europe  or  Russian  Asia 
  who  speak  a  Slavonic  language  [syn:  {Slav}]




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