About The Word Slav
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Slav
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What's The Definition Of 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Slav: Related Terms | Find terms related to Slav: See Also | Croat | Croatian | human | individual | mortal | person | Serb | Serbian | Slavic people | Slavic race | somebody | someone | Sorbian | soul Slav In Webster's Dictionary \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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