Croatian
/krəʊˈeɪʃ(ə)n
/noun
1A native or inhabitant of Croatia, or a person of Croatian descent.I know plenty of Italians, Spaniards, Irish, Serbs, Croatians, Greeks, Portuguese, French, and Russians who have black hair, dark eyes, and olive skin....
- The years between the two world wars were marked by spasmodic European immigration, especially of Italians, Greeks, Croatians, Maltese, and Jews.
- This is just like the earlier immigrations of Poles and Irish and Jews and Croatians and Germans and everyone else who's come to America's shores.
2 [mass noun] The Southern Slavic language of the Croats, almost identical to Serbian but written in the Roman alphabet. See Serbo-Croat.
adjective
Relating to the Croats or their language.
