Slavic meaning

slä'vĭk
Of or relating to the Slavs or their languages.
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Of or relating to the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes such languages as Russian, Serbo-Croatian, and Polish, and is composed of the East Slavic, South Slavic, and West Slavic subdivisions.
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The Slavic branch of Indo-European.
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A principal branch of the Indo-European family of languages, generally divided into East Slavic (Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian), South Slavic (Old Church Slavonic, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovenian, Macedonian), and West Slavic (Polish, Lusatian, Czech, Slovak)
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Slavic Sentence Examples

  • Finally national enthusiasm for the Slavic race contributed largely to its importance.

  • 395 a Gothic horde under Alaric devastated Laconia, and subsequently it was overrun by large bands of Slavic immigrants.

  • His Starozitnosti Slovanske (Slavic antiquities), an attempt to record the then almost unknown history and literature of the early Sla y s, has still considerable value.

  • She didn't know where exactly, but by the man's pale skin, she guessed Europe, maybe one of the Slavic countries.

  • Oberlin is primarily an educational centre, the seat of Oberlin College, named in honour of Jean Frederic Oberlin, and open to both sexes; it embraces a college of arts and sciences, an academy, a Theological Seminary (Congregational), which has a Slavic department for the training of clergy for Slavic immigrants, and a conservatory of music. In 1909 it had twenty buildings, and a Memorial Arch of Indiana buff limestone, dedicated in 1903, in honour of Congregational missionaries, many of them Oberlin graduates, killed in China in 1900.

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