SLAV

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Slav mean? 

• SLAV (noun)
  The noun SLAV has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: SLAV used as a noun is very rare.

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

1. speaking a Slavic language

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLAV (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Slav"):

Serb; Serbian (a member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries)

Croat; Croatian (a member of the Slavic people living in Croatia)

Sorbian (a speaker of Sorbian)

Cossack (a member of a Slavic people living in southern European Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted for their horsemanship and military skill; they formed an elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia)

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

Slavic people (group of people speaking a Slavonic language)

Derivation:

Slav (speaking a Slavic language)

Slavic; Slavonic (of or relating to Slavic languages)

• SLAV (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Speaking a Slavic language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

the Slav population of Georgia

Pertainym:

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

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There were Slavonian hunters, fair-skinned and mighty-muscled; short, squat Finns, with flat noses and round faces; Siberian half-breeds, whose noses were more like eagle-beaks; and lean, slant-eyed men, who bore in their veins the Mongol and Tartar blood as well as the blood of the Slav.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)