Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Slav"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Slav \Slav\, 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}.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Slav
adj : speaking a Slavic language; "the Slav population of Georgia"
[syn: {Slav}]
n : any member of the people of Eastern Europe or Russian Asia
who speak a Slavonic language [syn: {Slav}]
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