Definition of Slav. Meaning of Slav. Synonyms of Slav

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Definition of Slav

Slav
Slav Slav, n.;pl. Slavs. [A word originally meaning, intelligible, and used to contrast the people so called with foreigners who spoke languages unintelligible to the Slavs; akin to OSlav. slovo a word, slava fame, Skr. [,c]ru to hear. Cf. Loud.] (Ethnol.) One of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc. [Written also Slave, and Sclav.]

Meaning of Slav from wikipedia

- The Slavs or Slavic people are groups of people who speak Slavic languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout the northern parts of Eurasia;...
- Slav in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A Slav is a person of Slavic ethnicity. Slav or Slavs may also refer to: Slav Defense, a chess opening Slav (village)...
- SLĀV is a Canadian theatre production. It was created by Béatrice Bonif****i, with Robert Lepage as stage director. The pair launched the show on June 26...
- The early Slavs were speakers of Indo-European dialects who lived during the Migration Period and the Early Middle Ages (approximately from the 5th to...
- 2019 The Slavic Squat Phenomenon Kiril Tsanov, The history of the Slav squat How the “Slav squat” became an internet sensation, The Economist, September 10...
- The Slav Defense is a chess opening that begins with the moves: 1. d4 d5 2. c4 c6 The Slav is one of the primary defenses to the Queen's Gambit. Although...
- Polabian Slavs, also known as Elbe Slavs and more broadly as Wends, is a collective term applied to a number of Lechitic (West Slavic) tribes who lived...
- The Slav Epic (Czech: Slovanská epopej) is a cycle of 20 large canvases painted by Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha between 1910 and 1928. The...
- The East Slavs are the most populous subgroup of the Slavs. They speak the East Slavic languages, and formed the majority of the po****tion of the medieval...
- Geographically separated from the West Slavs and East Slavs by Austria, Hungary, Romania, and the Black Sea, the South Slavs today include Bosniaks, Bulgarians...