Sclav

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sclav \Sclav\, Sclave \Sclave\, n.
     Same as {Slav}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Slav \Slav\ (sl[aum]v or sl[a^]v), 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}.]
     [1913 Webster]