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Definition of Latvian in English:

Latvian

adjective ˈlatvɪənˈlætviən
  • Relating to Latvia or its language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A long table held an international array of booze, from Australian wine to Latvian vodka to a particularly unpleasant ouzo.
    • In free Latvia, state money has been used to restore cemeteries where Latvian SS soldiers are buried, and museums recording the occupation from 1940 to 1990 have been established.
    • Another interesting part of the rehearsal, and what proves to be interesting about the course as a whole, is related to the presence of a visiting Latvian conductor and his wife.
    • His father was Lithuanian, his mother Latvian.
    • The Latvian spokesperson said they were standing behind their commissioner designate.
    • He was walking home with two Latvian friends when they were overheard talking in Russian by a group of up to 20 teenagers in Lower Broughton Road.
    • An exception is a bizarre incident in May when a Latvian TV crew was detained in the region and kicked out of the country with no explanation.
    • By the 1980s, Latvian language and culture were on the verge of extinction, and some drastic measures were needed to galvanise them after independence.
    • A few Latvian expletives were projected out the window, then those blue suede shoes hit that accelerator, and we all had had our first taste of Baltic road rage.
    • And then I will get drunk, and because Mara and her family are Latvian, I will dance some sort of folk dance and look like an idiot.
    • If she's Greek, then my dad, also a first-generation American, is Latvian.
    • His highly resonant and original stories assume the shape of Russian classics, but are drawn from his life growing up as a very young Latvian immigrant in Toronto.
    • A 33-year-old non-national will be brought before Dublin District Court this morning in relation to the fatal stabbing of the Latvian man.
    • This short film by the Latvian film maker is a life study of the people on the streets of Riga listening to a fragment of Mozart's music.
    • He explained that the Gardai had been searching for some time for the body of a Latvian national who had gone missing while rock fishing.
    • Our correspondent reports from the Latvian capital, Riga.
    • On Thursday, they picked up their first European win in five years, taking a slender 1-0 win over Latvian side Ventspils in the first stage of the UEFA Cup.
    • The company has already received inquiries from businesses as far away as Scotland interested in recruiting Latvian workers through the company's Riga office.
    • Some brilliant Latvian geeks made a sequence of images that, when viewed in stop-action animation, shows a robot-like man walking.
    • Johnson set up a system of youth development throughout the country, and just as important, he set up a generation of Latvian players with transfers to clubs in the west.
noun ˈlatvɪənˈlætviən
  • 1A native or inhabitant of Latvia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The imperial accusation comes from the substantial populations of Tibetans, Latvians and so forth who do not identify with Russia, and yet get ruled by them anyway.
    • He was the first Latvian to play for a National Basketball Association team.
    • The Saami and the Estonians are the closest populations, while the Finns are separate and the Latvians and Lithuanians are close together but somewhat separated from the rest.
    • There were no Indo-European people closer to the Indo-Iranics than the northern European Baltic people i.e. the Lithuanians, the Latvians and the Prussians.
    • Taking on the Latvian in the main lines requires a bit of knowledge and familiarity with the critical lines is essential.
    • Before that pioneering effort the Latvian was confined to the special group of openings that attract die-hard support at the amateur level, but finds no following among top players.
    • The regime aimed to transform the country into a typical Soviet one, and many native Latvians were deported and Russians brought in to help achieve this.
    • Outnumbered by Czech fans, the Latvians gave a good account of themselves, as did their team, leading for half an hour.
    • At this time native Estonians and Latvians were beginning to settle in the towns, and from this new class there emerged nationalist and revolutionary groups.
    • Why did some Ukrainians, Latvians, Lithuanians, and others acquiesce and sometimes help the fascists exterminate their Jewish neighbors?
    • They deported at least 300,000 Lithuanians, 250,000 Latvians, 350,000 Jews, and three-quarters of a million Poles to the interior.
    • It is also because we listened to the Latvians and Lithuanians, Czechs and Cubans that washed up upon the landlocked plains.
    • Four days later, a Croatian victory over the Latvians may well relegate the Scots to third place.
    • The Latvians have a better approach to their architectural heritage than we do.
    • He is urging the Indian Government to release him after five Latvians imprisoned with him were freed following their President's intervention.
    • Most Latvians dress in standard European clothes for everyday wear.
    • The story of the rather over-refreshed and over-excited Englishman who espied the rather promising looking Latvian lurking in a semi-lit and semi-private place.
    • The attack was complemented in the west by attacks from nationalities hitherto under Russian control, i.e. Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, and Poles.
    • I am sure the Dutch and the Latvians are disappointed about this but it's why there are squads of 23 players.
    • After reading your article about the Latvian Gambit, I felt well prepared for a game in our local club tournament against an opponent who has played the Latvian for more than 20 years.
    • In 1993, according to Latvian government statistics, 53.5 percent of inhabitants were ethnic Latvians, while 33.5 percent were Russians.
    • Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians suffered as others had before them.
    • It's obvious that you've looked at this opening far more than I have, but I simply can't agree with your assessment that the Latvian is playable.
    • After a confused period of war between Latvians, Germans, and Bolshevik Russians, international recognition was gained in 1921 and the Constitution of the Republic agreed in 1922.
    • Only 33 per cent of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians think membership ‘is a good thing’.
    • Deportation now awaits the six Latvians, two Lithuanians, four Russians, four Moldovans and two Ukrainians who were detained at Kendal and Penrith police stations after the raids.
  • 2mass noun The official language of Latvia, which belongs to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European family and has about 1.5 million speakers.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • More people know Irish than Maltese, Latvian or Estonian, the protestors claimed.
    • Imagine if I'd had to learn to read and write in English… you might not read my blog if I spoke, say, Latvian or Estonian… would you!
    • The fact that it's in Latvian (although they have released versions in several languages, including Belarussian, but not English), will mean this fails to qualify for Saturday.
    • Millions of people will continue to speak Italian, Greek, Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Vietnamese, Lebanese and the world's many other languages when they die out in Australia.
    • How many people, for example, can translate from Latvian into Maltese?
    • The original Evening Press article which told of Charles finding his family has since been translated into Latvian, and printed in a local newspaper sold in Riga.
    • It should be interesting, as I haven't got much Latvian these days and they have no English,’ he said.
    • For some reason they filled out six different reports, all handwritten in Latvian.
    • The show includes 120 displays of photographs, documents, relics and texts in four languages - English, Latvian, French and Welsh.
    • There are links to 1,203 sites in languages other than English, including one in Arabic and one in Latvian.
    • She is 85 now and not well, but Brigita was telling her who I was in Latvian, while she was holding my hand.
    • I was simultaneously translated via headphones into Latvian and Russian.
    • The new Latvian government reinstated Latvian as the official language.
    • Amidst the Babel-like diversity, Brother Wolfgang spoke alternately in German and in English, while others translated into Latvian, French, Italian and Dutch.
    • Latvian words are stressed on the first syllable, and written Latvian is largely phonetic.
    • Modern Latvian shows the influences of former conquerors.
    • Nevertheless, Latvian and Maltese will have the right to be treated on the same footing as French, German or English.
    • She was immediately bundled away by a security guard, complaining in Latvian that Britain was ‘the enemy’.
    • If you were in Dundee in 1790, you would have heard Russian, American and Latvian spoken.
    • Even menus in Russian restaurants are printed exclusively in Latvian, the republic's only official tongue.
 
 

Definition of Latvian in US English:

Latvian

adjectiveˈlætviənˈlatvēən
  • Relating to Latvia, its people, or its language.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A few Latvian expletives were projected out the window, then those blue suede shoes hit that accelerator, and we all had had our first taste of Baltic road rage.
    • Another interesting part of the rehearsal, and what proves to be interesting about the course as a whole, is related to the presence of a visiting Latvian conductor and his wife.
    • A long table held an international array of booze, from Australian wine to Latvian vodka to a particularly unpleasant ouzo.
    • His highly resonant and original stories assume the shape of Russian classics, but are drawn from his life growing up as a very young Latvian immigrant in Toronto.
    • By the 1980s, Latvian language and culture were on the verge of extinction, and some drastic measures were needed to galvanise them after independence.
    • The company has already received inquiries from businesses as far away as Scotland interested in recruiting Latvian workers through the company's Riga office.
    • Some brilliant Latvian geeks made a sequence of images that, when viewed in stop-action animation, shows a robot-like man walking.
    • The Latvian spokesperson said they were standing behind their commissioner designate.
    • A 33-year-old non-national will be brought before Dublin District Court this morning in relation to the fatal stabbing of the Latvian man.
    • This short film by the Latvian film maker is a life study of the people on the streets of Riga listening to a fragment of Mozart's music.
    • He explained that the Gardai had been searching for some time for the body of a Latvian national who had gone missing while rock fishing.
    • And then I will get drunk, and because Mara and her family are Latvian, I will dance some sort of folk dance and look like an idiot.
    • An exception is a bizarre incident in May when a Latvian TV crew was detained in the region and kicked out of the country with no explanation.
    • His father was Lithuanian, his mother Latvian.
    • He was walking home with two Latvian friends when they were overheard talking in Russian by a group of up to 20 teenagers in Lower Broughton Road.
    • On Thursday, they picked up their first European win in five years, taking a slender 1-0 win over Latvian side Ventspils in the first stage of the UEFA Cup.
    • Johnson set up a system of youth development throughout the country, and just as important, he set up a generation of Latvian players with transfers to clubs in the west.
    • Our correspondent reports from the Latvian capital, Riga.
    • In free Latvia, state money has been used to restore cemeteries where Latvian SS soldiers are buried, and museums recording the occupation from 1940 to 1990 have been established.
    • If she's Greek, then my dad, also a first-generation American, is Latvian.
nounˈlætviənˈlatvēən
  • 1A native or citizen of Latvia, or a person of Latvian descent.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He was the first Latvian to play for a National Basketball Association team.
    • The Saami and the Estonians are the closest populations, while the Finns are separate and the Latvians and Lithuanians are close together but somewhat separated from the rest.
    • Deportation now awaits the six Latvians, two Lithuanians, four Russians, four Moldovans and two Ukrainians who were detained at Kendal and Penrith police stations after the raids.
    • Most Latvians dress in standard European clothes for everyday wear.
    • Before that pioneering effort the Latvian was confined to the special group of openings that attract die-hard support at the amateur level, but finds no following among top players.
    • They deported at least 300,000 Lithuanians, 250,000 Latvians, 350,000 Jews, and three-quarters of a million Poles to the interior.
    • He is urging the Indian Government to release him after five Latvians imprisoned with him were freed following their President's intervention.
    • I am sure the Dutch and the Latvians are disappointed about this but it's why there are squads of 23 players.
    • The regime aimed to transform the country into a typical Soviet one, and many native Latvians were deported and Russians brought in to help achieve this.
    • At this time native Estonians and Latvians were beginning to settle in the towns, and from this new class there emerged nationalist and revolutionary groups.
    • The attack was complemented in the west by attacks from nationalities hitherto under Russian control, i.e. Finns, Estonians, Latvians, Lithuanians, and Poles.
    • The imperial accusation comes from the substantial populations of Tibetans, Latvians and so forth who do not identify with Russia, and yet get ruled by them anyway.
    • There were no Indo-European people closer to the Indo-Iranics than the northern European Baltic people i.e. the Lithuanians, the Latvians and the Prussians.
    • The Latvians have a better approach to their architectural heritage than we do.
    • Outnumbered by Czech fans, the Latvians gave a good account of themselves, as did their team, leading for half an hour.
    • After reading your article about the Latvian Gambit, I felt well prepared for a game in our local club tournament against an opponent who has played the Latvian for more than 20 years.
    • In 1993, according to Latvian government statistics, 53.5 percent of inhabitants were ethnic Latvians, while 33.5 percent were Russians.
    • Poles, Lithuanians, Latvians, and Estonians suffered as others had before them.
    • Why did some Ukrainians, Latvians, Lithuanians, and others acquiesce and sometimes help the fascists exterminate their Jewish neighbors?
    • It's obvious that you've looked at this opening far more than I have, but I simply can't agree with your assessment that the Latvian is playable.
    • Taking on the Latvian in the main lines requires a bit of knowledge and familiarity with the critical lines is essential.
    • The story of the rather over-refreshed and over-excited Englishman who espied the rather promising looking Latvian lurking in a semi-lit and semi-private place.
    • It is also because we listened to the Latvians and Lithuanians, Czechs and Cubans that washed up upon the landlocked plains.
    • Four days later, a Croatian victory over the Latvians may well relegate the Scots to third place.
    • Only 33 per cent of Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians think membership ‘is a good thing’.
    • After a confused period of war between Latvians, Germans, and Bolshevik Russians, international recognition was gained in 1921 and the Constitution of the Republic agreed in 1922.
  • 2The Baltic language of Latvia.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It should be interesting, as I haven't got much Latvian these days and they have no English,’ he said.
    • The original Evening Press article which told of Charles finding his family has since been translated into Latvian, and printed in a local newspaper sold in Riga.
    • Millions of people will continue to speak Italian, Greek, Latvian, Estonian, Lithuanian, Vietnamese, Lebanese and the world's many other languages when they die out in Australia.
    • Modern Latvian shows the influences of former conquerors.
    • The fact that it's in Latvian (although they have released versions in several languages, including Belarussian, but not English), will mean this fails to qualify for Saturday.
    • How many people, for example, can translate from Latvian into Maltese?
    • There are links to 1,203 sites in languages other than English, including one in Arabic and one in Latvian.
    • She was immediately bundled away by a security guard, complaining in Latvian that Britain was ‘the enemy’.
    • The show includes 120 displays of photographs, documents, relics and texts in four languages - English, Latvian, French and Welsh.
    • Nevertheless, Latvian and Maltese will have the right to be treated on the same footing as French, German or English.
    • If you were in Dundee in 1790, you would have heard Russian, American and Latvian spoken.
    • She is 85 now and not well, but Brigita was telling her who I was in Latvian, while she was holding my hand.
    • I was simultaneously translated via headphones into Latvian and Russian.
    • Amidst the Babel-like diversity, Brother Wolfgang spoke alternately in German and in English, while others translated into Latvian, French, Italian and Dutch.
    • Even menus in Russian restaurants are printed exclusively in Latvian, the republic's only official tongue.
    • Latvian words are stressed on the first syllable, and written Latvian is largely phonetic.
    • The new Latvian government reinstated Latvian as the official language.
    • For some reason they filled out six different reports, all handwritten in Latvian.
    • More people know Irish than Maltese, Latvian or Estonian, the protestors claimed.
    • Imagine if I'd had to learn to read and write in English… you might not read my blog if I spoke, say, Latvian or Estonian… would you!
 
 
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