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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Slav  \Slav\,  n.;pl.  {Slavs}.  [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.  [,c]ru  to  hear. 
  Cf  {Loud}.]  (Ethnol.) 
  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  [Written  also  {Slave},  and  {Sclav}.] 




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