a member of any of the peoples of E Europe or NW Asia who speak a Slavonic language
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Slav
(släv, slav),USA pronunciation n.
adj.
Slav,
- Language Varietiesone of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs,) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs,) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs.)
adj.
- Language Varietiesof, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Slavs;
Slavic.
- Medieval Latin Sclāvus
- a Slavic ethnonym, perh. origin, originally a name for all Slavic tribes (compare Slovak, Slovene, Old Russian Slověně an East Slavic tribe); replacing Middle English Sclave
- Medieval Latin Slāvus, variant of Sclāvus, akin to Late Greek Sklábos
- 1350–1400
Slav,
- Slavic.
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'Slav' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Church Slavic
- Eastern Slavs
- Old Church Slavonic
- Old Slavic
- Pan-Slavism
- Slavic
- Slavism
- Slavo-
- Slavonian
- Slavophobe
- Slovak
- Slovene
- Southern Slavs
- Sumy
- Western Slavs
- Yugoslav
- anti-Slav
- anti-Slavic
- duma
- er
- gherkin
- non-Slavic
- slave
- slavish
- wage slave
- white slaver
- white slavery