What does slav mean?

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slɑv, slævslav

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Slavadjective

    any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language

  2. Slavadjective

    speaking a Slavic language

    "the Slav population of Georgia"

Wiktionary

  1. Slavnoun

    A member of a group of peoples in Eastern Europe speaking a Slavic language.

  2. Slavnoun

    Shortened term for the Slavonian grebe.

  3. Etymology: sclave, from sclavus or Sclavus, from Σκλάβος, from earlier Σλαβῆνος, from plural Σλαβῆνοι, from *slověninŭ (compare словѣне 'Thessalonian Slavs', Old Russian Словене 'Slavs near Novgorod', Slovutich 'Dniepr river', Serbo-Croatian Slavonica 'river name'), from слово 'word, speech', from *kléu̯es 'fame'. More at loud.

Wikipedia

  1. slav

    Slavs are the largest European ethnolinguistic group. They speak the various Slavic languages, belonging to the larger Balto-Slavic branch of the Indo-European languages. Slavs are geographically distributed throughout northern Eurasia, mainly inhabiting Central and Eastern Europe, and the Balkans to the west; and Siberia to the east. A large Slavic minority is also scattered across the Baltic states and Central Asia, while a substantial Slavic diaspora is found throughout the Americas, as a result of immigration.Present-day Slavs are classified into East Slavs (chiefly Belarusians, Russians, Rusyns, and Ukrainians), West Slavs (chiefly Czechs, Kashubians, Poles, Slovaks and Sorbs) and South Slavs (chiefly Bosniaks, Bulgarians, Croats, Macedonians, Montenegrins, Serbs and Slovenes).The vast majority of Slavs are traditionally Christians. However, modern Slavic nations and ethnic groups are considerably diverse both genetically and culturally, and relations between them – even within the individual groups – range from "ethnic solidarity to mutual feelings of hostility".

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  1. slav

    A Slav refers to a member of any of the diverse ethnic and linguistic body of people living in Eastern Europe, Balkans, and parts of Northern and Central Asia. They are primarily recognized by their use of the Slavic languages, which belong to the Indo-European language family. The Slav nations include Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Slovenians, Serbs, Croats, Bosniaks, Macedonians, Belarusians, Bulgarians, and others. The term is also used to describe the culture and history associated with these ethnic groups.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Slavnoun

    one of a race of people occupying a large part of Eastern and Northern Europe, including the Russians, Bulgarians, Roumanians, Servo-Croats, Slovenes, Poles, Czechs, Wends or Sorbs, Slovaks, etc

  2. Etymology: [A word originally meaning, intelligible, and used to contrast the people so called with foreigners who spoke languages unintelligible to the Slavs; akin to OSlav. slovo a word, slava fame, Skr. ru to hear. Cf. Loud.]

Wikidata

  1. Slav

    Slav was a Jewish village and an Israeli settlement in the Gush Katif settlement bloc, located in the south-west edge of the Gaza Strip, whose residents were evicted in Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2005. The settlement was named after the bird that the Israelites ate in the desert during the Exodus from Egypt.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Slav

    Slave, släv, n. one belonging to any of the Slavonic groups of Aryans—Bulgarians, Czechs, Poles, Russians, Servians, Wends, &c.—adj. Slav′ic. [Slovene or Slovane, from Polish slovo, a word, thus meaning the people who spoke intelligibly, as distinguished from their neighbour, Niemets, the German, lit. the dumb man. Miklosich considers both to be tribal names.]

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of slav in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of slav in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of slav in a Sentence

  1. Nicholas Saunders:

    The sword is especially unique as it is the only one discovered in 1,500 early medieval graves so far found in Prague Castle, perhaps Nicholas Saunders was a Slav from a neighboring region, who had mastered Old Norse as well as Slavonic, or perhaps Nicholas Saunders regarded Nicholas Saunders as a genuine Viking.

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