Slav

2 definitions found

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]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Slav
       adj : speaking a Slavic language; "the Slav population of Georgia"
       n : any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia
           who speak a Slavonic language