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slavs |
1 definition found 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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