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SLAV
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Slav mean?
• SLAV (noun)
The noun SLAV has 1 sense:
1. any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language
Familiarity information: SLAV used as a noun is very rare.
• SLAV (adjective)
The adjective SLAV has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: SLAV used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Slav" is a kind of...):
individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)
European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Slav"):
Serb; Serbian (a member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries)
Croat; Croatian (a member of the Slavic people living in Croatia)
Sorbian (a speaker of Sorbian)
Cossack (a member of a Slavic people living in southern European Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted for their horsemanship and military skill; they formed an elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia)
Holonyms ("Slav" is a member of...):
Slavic people (group of people speaking a Slavonic language)
Derivation:
Slav (speaking a Slavic language)
Slavic; Slavonic (of or relating to Slavic languages)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Speaking a Slavic language
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Context example:
the Slav population of Georgia
Pertainym:
Slav (any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language)
Derivation:
Slav (any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language)
Context examples
He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
There were Slavonian hunters, fair-skinned and mighty-muscled; short, squat Finns, with flat noses and round faces; Siberian half-breeds, whose noses were more like eagle-beaks; and lean, slant-eyed men, who bore in their veins the Mongol and Tartar blood as well as the blood of the Slav.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
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