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SORBIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Sorbian mean?
• SORBIAN (noun)
The noun SORBIAN has 2 senses:
2. a Slavonic language spoken in rural area of southeastern Germany
Familiarity information: SORBIAN used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A speaker of Sorbian
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Sorbian" is a kind of...):
Slav (any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language)
Holonyms ("Sorbian" is a member of...):
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A Slavonic language spoken in rural area of southeastern Germany
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
Lusatian; Sorbian
Hypernyms ("Sorbian" is a kind of...):
Slavic; Slavic language; Slavonic; Slavonic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages)
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