Slavic
/ˈslɑːvɪk
/ /ˈslavɪk/adjective
1Relating to or denoting the branch of the Indo-European language family that includes Russian, Ukrainian, and Belorussian (Eastern Slavic), Polish, Czech, Slovak, and Sorbian (Western Slavic), and Bulgarian, Serbian, Croatian, Macedonian, and Slovene (Southern Slavic).Ukrainian is an Indo-European language of the Eastern Slavic group....
- Slovak is a member of the Western Slavic language group.
- Macedonian is a South Slavic language in the Indo-European family whose closest relatives are Bulgarian and Serbian.
1.1Relating to or denoting the peoples of central and eastern Europe who speak any of these languages.Ancestors of the Bosnians, Slavic people of central Europe, first settled in the region that is modern Bosnia in the fifth century....
- Several of the Slavic states of eastern Europe aided the refugees, while many Russians settled in Paris, Berlin, and the western hemisphere.
- The girl then continued to rave on about all the nations that were better than the Eastern European Slavic nations.
noun [mass noun]
The Slavic languages collectively. See also Slavonic.Original Yiddish was written in Hebrew letters and was a mixture of Hebrew, Slavic, and German....
- Since ancient times, very substantial strata of Latin and of Slavic and Turkish have been added to Albanian, making the older strata more difficult to analyze.
- East Slavic is generally thought to converge to one Old Russian language, which existed until at least the 12th century.
Rhymes
- swede
- Sweden
- Swedenborg, Emanuel
- Swedenborgian
- Swede saw
- swedge
- Swedish
- Swedish massage
- Sweeney
- sweep
- sweepback
- sweeper
- sweeping
- sweepingly
- sweepingness
- sweep second hand
- sweep someone off their feet
- sweep something under the carpet
- sweepstake
- sweep the board
- sweet
- sweet-and-sour
- sweet and sour mix
- sweet as
- sweet balm