Croat
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- noun
- /kroʊt/
- Her nanny was a foreign woman, a Catholic Croat from Yugoslavia.
- Croat nationalists
- Croat communities
- Croat leadership
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Watch on YouTubeAway from actual violence, certain officials also find some of the Croats placidity troubling.
- Away from actual violence, certain officials also find some of the Croats placidity troubling.
- As for Carl's announcement, he offered federal freedom to Czechs, Slovaks, Poles, Croats, Slovenes, Serbs and Romanians.
- It's millions of subjects ranged from Germans to Croats to Italians to Poles to Czechs to many, many more.
- He thought some of his officers would support him as well as the Serbs, though not the Bosnian Muslims or the Croats.
- So we have Croats, we have Russians spreading all the way to the Pacific, we have Ukrainians, we have Belarusians, Poles.
- If you go to a place like Bosnia, right, the Croats and the Serbs, Oh my God.
- The average Albanian, Serbian, Croat, Bosnian, Montenegrin, the average person just wants to move on with their life.
Examples
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A major political struggle also broke out between Croats and Serbs, which was made worse because the groups had fought mostly on opposite sides during the Great War.
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Well, I had an ex-girlfriend from Zagreb and she'd swear at me in Croat.
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Well, do you speak any Croat?
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I am Croat, my wife, Serb.
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Why would the Croatian army drive her, as a Croat, out?
Fiction book (1997) -
Once the Serbs encircled us, I felt strongly that I was a Croat.
Fiction book (1997) -
I'm a Croat.
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His wife, Maja's mother, is half-Jewish, half-Croat, but her main interest lies in the field of Eastern meditation techniques.
Academic text (1996) -
Brcko was the site of some of the worst violence during the war, but today the Muslim, Croat, and Serb communities there live in relative harmony.
Academic text (2009) -
As a proud Croat, he often shares stories about the rich culture of Croatia.
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Etymology
The word Croat comes from the Croatian name Hrvat, the local name people used to mean 'a person from Croatia'. It is the same root as Croatia, so a Croat is simply someone who belongs to the Croatian people.