Definitions for Cyrillic

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Cyrillic Cy·ril·lic

Spelling: [si-ril-ik]

IPA: /sɪˈrɪl ɪk/

Cyrillic is a 8 letter English word.

You can make 55 anagrams from letters in Cyrillic (cciillry).

Definitions for Cyrillic

noun

1. Cyrillic script.

adjective

1. noting or pertaining to a script derived from Greek uncials and traditionally supposed to have been invented by St. Cyril, first used for the writing of Old Church Slavonic and adopted with minor modifications for the writing of Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and some non-Slavic languages of Central Asia.
2. of or relating to St. Cyril.

Origin of Cyrillic

1835-45; New Latin Cyrillicus, equivalent to Cyrill(us) Saint Cyril + -icus -ic

Examples for Cyrillic

Down the highway, large letters shaped out of concrete or metal letters spelled out Donetsk in Cyrillic letters.

And there was a name there, in the Cyrillic alphabet which was the official written language of the Com-Pubs.

But, whereas the original drawing has been labeled entirely in Cyrillic characters, these labels were now in English.

The fifth was hand-lettered in the Cyrillic alphabet and illustrated with geometric diagrams.

The former was used by Bulgarian writers concurrently with the Cyrillic down to the 12th century.

The Glagolitic letters had, however, the precedence of the Cyrillic alphabet, in respect to printing.

The Glagolitic literature was therefore almost exclusively limited to copies of the productions of their Cyrillic brethren.

There is however still another Cyrillic printing office attached to an Armenian convent in Vienna.

Nearly at the same time, 1492, they began in Servia and Herzegovina to print with Cyrillic types.

I promised, took the pencil and wrote my name very large in Cyrillic; he was delighted, and everyone came to see.