Serb
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3.8
- proper noun
- /sɜrb/
:
serbio
- I am Croat, my wife, Serb.
- Bosnian Serb
He thought some of his officers would support him as well as the Serbs, though not the Bosnian Muslims or the Croats.
- He thought some of his officers would support him as well as the Serbs, though not the Bosnian Muslims or the Croats.
- Ministers would argue that the Serbs are tough people.
- And so they started the war with Croatia, initially, I believe the Serbs.
- I remember when I was young, when I met from other, when I met with other people from ex Yugoslav Republic, Serbs crowd, Bosnia's and so on.
- And I know for a fact that the Serbs do not love America because we bombed their capital.
- And there was ethnic cleansing going on basically with it was the Serbs, with the local Muslim populations and they were horrendous what they were doing.
Examples
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Gavrilo Princip was the young Serb who assassinated the Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand Habsburg and Sofia, his pregnant wife, thus effectively starting World War I.
Fiction book (1995) -
I'm just a simple Serb.
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My woman is a Serb now; you are a brother to me now.
Fiction book (2000) -
I am and always will be a proud Serb.
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"Most Albanians are no longer willing to have contact with us," a Serb commented.
Academic text (2005) -
Ministers would argue that the Serbs are tough people.
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I am a Serb.
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Is he a Serb?
Fiction book (1999) -
In May of that same year, he was dropped off at his hotel by a Serb, a representative of the Yugoslav government in exile in London.
Fiction book (2001) -
I am a proud Serb and value my cultural heritage.
Synonyms
Surface Forms
Etymology
Serb comes from the old Slavic name Srbin, the name people used for themselves, and it shares the same root as Serbia. That's why a Serb means a person of that South Slavic group or someone from Serbia.