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Serb

Serb

242 3.4
A person whose family comes from Serbia or nearby countries
  • noun
  • /sɜrb/
translation icon : serbio
  • This victory increased Lazar's authority tenfold and he managed to form a broad alliance consisting of Serbs, Bolgas, Bosnians and Albans.
  • Serb and Croat
  • Bosnian Serb
  • Croatian Serb

In the Paya region, the Serbs pronounce it Pech, but in Albanian, it's pronounced Paya.

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Examples

  • The Serb position in Kosovo had been permanently undermined by the failure of a 1689 Serb rebellion against Ottoman rule.

    Academic text (1999)
  • Now, we are headed right into the heart of this Balkan madness, into Serb territory.

  • I was not a good Serb woman.

  • I am a Serb patriot.

  • Still, although I hated the Serb armies, I didn't hate the Serbs around me.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • One of the body's purposes was to ensure the rights of Serb minorities were upheld.

    Blog text (34)
  • He's a Serb, ex-paramilitary.

  • Many Serbs celebrate their heritage with traditional music and dance.

  • As a proud Serb, he enjoyed sharing stories about his family's history.

  • The Serb community gathered to commemorate an important cultural festival.

Synonyms

Serbian
vsSerb
3.0

A person whose family comes from Serbia or nearby areas

is a general ethnic definition without specific focus on early settlement
Servian
vsSerb
  • Archaic
8.0

A person from Serbia or whose family comes from Serbia

emphasizes ethnic group origin across regions rather than just nationality

Surface Forms

Serb singular
Serbs plural

Etymology

Serb comes from the Slavic name Srbin, the word people in the region used for themselves, and it is the same root as Serbia, the country's name. So a Serb is someone who belongs to that people or comes from that country.