Definition of Slavic

1. Noun. A branch of the Indo-European family of languages.


2. Adjective. Of or relating to Slavic languages.
Exact synonyms: Slavonic
Derivative terms: Slav, Slav
Partainyms: Slavonic, Slavonic

Definition of Slavic

1. a. Slavonic.

Definition of Slavic

1. Adjective. Of the Slavs, their culture or the branch of the Indo-European language associated with them. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Slavic

Skylar
Skyler
Skynet
Skyper
Skypers
Skyros
Skírnismál
Slade
Slask
Slaughters
Slav
Slave Coast
Slave Dynasty
Slavey
Slavianstvo
Slavic
Slavic language
Slavic people
Slavic race
Slavicism
Slavicisms
Slavicist
Slavicists
Slavism
Slavonia
Slavonian
Slavonian grebe
Slavonian grebes
Slavonians
Slavonic

Literary usage of Slavic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"The Bulgarian princes lived on terms of friendship with the slavic chiefs. ... In 812 one of the Bulgarian ambassadors bore the slavic name ..."

2. Manual of Universal Church History by Johannes Baptist Alzog, Francis Joseph Pabisch, Thomas Sebastian Byrne (1890)
"THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHURCH PREDOMINANT AMONG THE GERMANIC AND slavic NATIONS. SHE CONVERTS THEM TO CHRISTIANITY, AND CIVILISES THEM. ..."

3. A Political History of Europe, Since 1814, by Charles Seignobos (1901)
"But a slavic population occupied the south, Carniola, a bit of Styria and ... The Bohemian group was mainly slavic (Czechs), but there was a large number of ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"Outside of Cleveland and Chicago, the first slavic mission was the outgrowth of Polish Sunday-school work maintained chiefly by the First Congregational ..."

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