CZECH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Czech mean? 

• CZECH (noun)
  The noun CZECH has 3 senses:

1. a native of inhabitant of the Czech Republic

2. a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia

3. the Slavic language of Czechs

  Familiarity information: CZECH used as a noun is uncommon.

• CZECH (adjective)
  The adjective CZECH has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language

  Familiarity information: CZECH used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CZECH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A native of inhabitant of the Czech Republic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Czech" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Holonyms ("Czech" is a member of...):

Czech Republic (a landlocked republic in central Europe; separated from Slovakia in 1993)

Derivation:

Czech (of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Czech; Czechoslovak; Czechoslovakian

Hypernyms ("Czech" is a kind of...):

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Holonyms ("Czech" is a member of...):

Czechoslovakia (a former republic in central Europe; divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993)

Derivation:

Czech (of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The Slavic language of Czechs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("Czech" is a kind of...):

Slavic; Slavic language; Slavonic; Slavonic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages)

Derivation:

Czech (of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language)

• CZECH (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Czech; Czechoslovakian

Context example:

The Czechoslovakian population

Pertainym:

Czechoslovakia (a former republic in central Europe; divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993)

Derivation:

Czech (the Slavic language of Czechs)

Czech (a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia)

Czech (a native of inhabitant of the Czech Republic)

 Context examples 

In 2008-2009 the PGR slid in Germany, France and in the Czech Republic but population growth continued in the Netherlands and Switzerland.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

To modernize its military, in 2018, Hungary licensed Czech firearm technology and started assembling firearms in Kiskunfélegyháza, then agreed with Airbus to open a helicopter parts factory as a joint venture in Gyula.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

In 2007-2008, the population growth rate (PGR) of the Czech Republic almost tripled, that of the Netherlands doubled, while the Swiss and the French rates showed solid increases, from 0.67% to 1.13% and from 0.62% to 0.93%, respectively.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)