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Slavonic
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun Slavonic has 1 sense
- slavonic(n = noun.communication) slavic, slavic language, slavonic language - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages; Array is a kind of balto-slavic, balto-slavic language, balto-slavonic
has particulars: church slavic, old bulgarian, old church slavic, old church slavonic, russian, belarusian, byelorussian, white russian, ukrainian, polish, slovak, czech, slovene, serbo-croat, serbo-croatian, lusatian, sorbian, macedonian, bulgarian
Adjective Slavonic has 1 sense
- slavonic(a = adj.pert) slavic - of or relating to Slavic languages; Array Derived form noun slav1
CIDE DICTIONARY
Slavonic, a.
- Of or pertaining to Slavonia, or its inhabitants. [1913 Webster]
- Of or pertaining to the Slavs, or their language. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Slavonic, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 of or relating to the group of Indo-European languages including Russian, Polish, and Czech.
2 of or relating to the Slavs.
--n. the Slavonic language-group.
--adj.
1 of or relating to the group of Indo-European languages including Russian, Polish, and Czech.
2 of or relating to the Slavs.
--n. the Slavonic language-group.
Idiom
Old Church Slavonic the earliest written Slavonic language, surviving as a liturgical language in the Orthodox Church.
Etymology
med.L S(c)lavonicus f. S(c)lavonia country of Slavs f. Sclavus SLAV
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