Definitions for: Slav


[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"



Webster (1913) 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.]

See Also: Croat, Croatian, human, individual, mortal, person, Serb, Serbian, Slavic people, Slavic race, somebody, someone, Sorbian, soul

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