Balt Definition
bôlt
noun
A member of a Baltic-speaking people.
American Heritage
A native or inhabitant of Lithuania, Latvia, or Estonia.
American Heritage
An ethnic descendant of the Indo-European Baltic people, especially including ethnic Lithuanians, Latvians or Prussians, but generally not including ethnic Belarusians, Estonians, Germans, Jews, Livonians, Poles, Russians, Swedes or Tatars who have also inhabited or currently inhabit the modern Baltic states.
Wiktionary
A native speaker of one of the Baltic languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian, Sudovian and related languages.
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Other Word Forms of Balt
Noun
Singular:
Balt
Plural:
baltsOrigin of Balt
From Medieval Latin Balthae Balts
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Medieval Latin Balthae.
From Wiktionary
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