Slavic people
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4.4
- noun
- /ˈslævɪk ˈpipəl/
:
pueblo eslavo
- I'm so proud of our Cossacks and our Slavic people.
Examples
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Croatians are Catholic, Serbians are Orthodox, and Muslims are Slavic people converted to Islam.
Academic text (1997) -
Had he won, as Himmler said, he would have eliminated all the Slavic peoples.
Blog text (33) -
Migration of the Germanic peoples was followed by the arrival of the Slavic peoples who settled in Eastern Europe, part of Central Europe and the Balkans.
Blog text (16) -
Moscow traces its political lineage to Kievan Rus', the medieval state of the Eastern Slavic people that was centered in Ukraine.
Academic text (2010) -
Moscow traces its political lineage to Kievan Rus', the medieval state of the Eastern Slavic people that was centered in Ukraine.
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Migration of the Germanic peoples was followed by the arrival of the Slavic peoples who settled in Eastern Europe, part of Central Europe and the Balkans.
Synonyms
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5.0
A person from parts of eastern Europe and Russia who speaks a language like Russian or Polish
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: the adjective 'Slavic' (relating to Slavic languages/peoples) simply modifies 'people' to indicate people who are Slavic, so a learner who knows both words can infer the group being referred to. This adjective+noun pattern is cross-linguistically common and follows standard English modification rules, making the phrase immediately understandable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Slavic people may come from an old word meaning 'word' or 'speech'. It likely began as a way to call 'people who speak the same words', so today it means the group of people who speak Slavic languages.