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Slav

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Slav  (släv)
n.
A member of one of the Slavic-speaking peoples of eastern Europe.

[Middle English Sclave, from Medieval Latin Sclvus, from Late Greek Sklabos, alteration of Old Slavic Slovnin.]

Slav
Noun
a member of any of the peoples of E Europe or the former Soviet Union who speak a Slavonic language [Medieval Latin Sclavus a captive Slav]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.SlavSlav - any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
Slavic people, Slavic race - a race of people speaking a Slavonic language
Serb, Serbian - a member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries
Croat, Croatian - a member of the Slavic people living in Croatia
Sorbian - a speaker of Sorbian
Cossack - a member of a Slavic people living in southern European Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted for their horsemanship and military skill; they formed an elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia
Adj.1.Slav - speaking a Slavic language; "the Slav population of Georgia"
Translations
Spanish Slav [slɑːv] adjeslavo
French Slav [slɑːv] adjslave
German Slav [slɑːv] adjslawisch
nSlawe m, Slawin f

Italian Slav [slɑːv] adj, nslavo/a

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My gay American horizons were bathed in the vast melancholy of the Slav, patient, agnostic, trustful.
began the priest in that voice, clear, not grandiloquent but mild, in which only the Slav clergy read and which acts so irresistibly on a Russian heart.
As the rage and fear-filled countenance of the Slav turned toward her Jane Clayton raised the heavy revolver high above the pasty face and with all her strength dealt the man a terrific blow between the eyes.
 
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