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Serbian

Serbian

3.0
A person whose family comes from Serbia or nearby areas
  • noun
  • /ˈsɜrbiən/
translation icon : serbio
  • The Croatians are Catholics, the Serbians are Orthodox.

The Croatians are Catholics, the Serbians are Orthodox.

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Examples

  • Why should I go and fight because the Austrians and the Germans and the Serbians are at each other's throats.

  • And it was to kick all the Serbians out of Kosovo into Serbia.

  • From his youth, Stepas Stepanovich's influence on Serbian society is enormous.

  • That winter, the remnants of the Serbian army escaped through the Albanian mountains.

  • That winter, the remnants of the Serbian army escaped through the Albanian mountains.

  • And there's also the, a really important site of the battle of, of Kosovo, which was led by Serbian Prince Lazar.

  • He managed to unite the local Albanian and Serbian Lords in the League of Leisure, thus forming a strong alliance against his former masters.

  • The Serbs and French up against gargantuan odds in Serbia as the Serbian civilian population flees toward the mountains of Albania.

  • Almost all Serbian and Bulgarian aristocrats became the vassals of Murad, among them the Prince of Moravian Serbia, Lazar.

  • Stepan is proud of his Serbian heritage and enjoys celebrating the traditional festivals.

Synonyms

Serb
vsSerbian
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A person whose family comes from Serbia or nearby countries

adds historical origin by noting settlement in the sixth and seventh centuries

Surface Forms

Serbian singular
Serbians plural

Morphology

Serbian = Serb (transparent) = Serb + ian

The noun meaning 'a person of Serbian ethnicity' is directly formed from the ethnonym 'Serb' + the demonymic suffix '-ian'.

Etymology

Serbian comes from the name of the people, the Serb, an old Slavic group. So a Serbian is a person who belongs to that people or who has their heritage.