Definitions for Slav

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Slav Slav

Spelling: [slahv, slav]

IPA: /slɑv, slæv/

Slav is a 4 letter English word.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in Slav (alsv).

Definitions for Slav

noun

1. one of a group of peoples in eastern, southeastern, and central Europe, including the Russians and Ruthenians (Eastern Slavs) the Bulgars, Serbs, Croats, Slavonians, Slovenes, etc. (Southern Slavs) and the Poles, Czechs, Moravians, Slovaks, etc. (Western Slavs)

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the Slavs; Slavic.

abbreviation

1. Slavic.

Origin of Slav

1350-1400; Medieval Latin Slāvus, variant of Sclāvus, akin to Late Greek Sklábos Slovak, Slovene, Old Russian Slověně an East Slavic tribe); replacing Middle Engli

Examples for Slav

The Ausgleich was of ill-omen to the Slav subjects of Hungary.

All about him epoch-making events for Slav lands were taking place.

To the big Slav it was all in the day's work, but to me it was hard, hard.

Without a word the stalwart Slav took him on his brawny shoulder.

But his father was a Slav, and what is madness in an Englishwoman is sanity in a Russian.

But also he is a Slav and likes a glass of vodka on Sundays and feast days.

A second time I glimpsed the Slav behind his veneer of civilization.

It was to him a marvel that these people's mother-tongue was Slav.

No one knows what the morrow will bring, either to us or to the Slav.

It has been claimed that the Slav is fit only for an absolute government.