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Webster 1913 Edition
Slav
Slav
(släv or slăv)
, Noun.
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. çru
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
.]