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Definition of Slavic
1. Adjective. Of or relating to Slavic languages.
2. Noun. A branch of the Indo-European family of languages.
Generic synonyms: Balto-slavic, Balto-slavic Language, Balto-slavonic
Specialized synonyms: Church Slavic, Old Bulgarian, Old Church Slavic, Old Church Slavonic, Russian, Belarusian, Byelorussian, White Russian, Ukrainian, Polish, Slovak, Czech, Slovene, Serbo-croat, Serbo-croatian, Lusatian, Sorbian, Macedonian, Bulgarian
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
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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