Slav
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5.6
- adjective
- /slæv/
:
eslavo
- The festival celebrated the rich traditions and languages of the Slav communities in Eastern Europe.
- South Slav
Examples
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These Serbs are of our race, of the Slav race.
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It's a Slav dialect.
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So in the traditional sense, Well, if, if you are Slavic, that was a pretty tight crowd.
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So what could sound more Slavic than Yaroslav, right, Yaroslav.
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Yet the Slav masses in neighboring Moravia, Silesia, and Slovakia were slow to embrace this idea.
Academic text (1996) -
Men and women have died and lived for the ideal of Yugoslavia, the South Slav state; and here are these very charming people chafing with discontent at the realization of it.
Academic text (1992) -
At least 80 percent of the total Slav immigration to Texas from Bohemia, Moravia, and Austrian Silesia originated in Moravia.
Academic text (1996) -
It is probable that some Slav immigrants from Moravia were officially labeled Austrian, German, Slovak, or Hungarian.
Academic text (1996) -
Many historians study the ancient texts written in Slav languages to understand their cultural heritage.
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The Slav influence on music can be heard in the folk songs passed down through generations.
Synonyms
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6.1
About languages or people from Eastern Europe who belong to the same language group
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7.4
Relating to languages like Russian, Polish and Czech or to the people who speak them
Surface Forms
Etymology
As an adjective, Slav comes from the same root slovo 'word', so it describes things connected to those people or their language. That's why we use Slav for their languages, music, or customs.