Slav

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Slav

(släv)

A member of one of the Slavic-speaking peoples of eastern Europe.

[Middle English Sclave, from Medieval Latin Sclāvus, from Late Greek Sklabos, alteration of Old Slavic Slověninŭ.]

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Slav

(slɑːv)

(Peoples) a member of any of the peoples of E Europe or NW Asia who speak a Slavonic language

[C14: from Medieval Latin Sclāvus a captive Slav; see slave]

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Slav

(slɑv, slæv)

n.

a member of a Slavic-speaking people.

[1350–1400; Middle English Sclave < Medieval Latin Sclāvus, Slāvus, akin to Late Greek Sklábos < a Slavic ethnonym (compare Slovak, Slovene)]

Slav

or Slav.,

Slavic.

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Noun	1.	Slav - any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" Slavic people, Slavic race - a race of people speaking a Slavonic language Serb, Serbian - a member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries Croat, Croatian - a member of the Slavic people living in Croatia Sorbian - a speaker of Sorbian Cossack - a member of a Slavic people living in southern European Russia and Ukraine and adjacent parts of Asia and noted for their horsemanship and military skill; they formed an elite cavalry corps in czarist Russia
Adj.	1.	Slav - speaking a Slavic language; "the Slav population of Georgia"

Translations

Slovan

slaavi

Slave

SlavenSlavenka

slavo

славянин славянский

slav

слов'янинслов'янка

Slav

[slɑːv]

A. ADJ → eslavo

B. N → eslavo/a m/f

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Slav

[ˈslɑːv]

adj → slave

n → Slave mf

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

Slav

adj → slawisch

n → Slawe m, → Slawin f

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Slav

[slɑːv] adj & n → slavo/a

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It was a working-man's home, and the owner was a Slav like himself, a new emigrant from White Russia; he bade Jurgis welcome in his home language, and told him to come to the kitchen-fire and dry himself.

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But in us Slav who has done nothing, him I believe.

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There were Slavonian hunters, fair-skinned and mighty-muscled; short, squat Finns, with flat noses and round faces; Siberian half-breeds, whose noses were more like eagle- beaks; and lean, slant-eyed men, who bore in their veins the Mongol and Tartar blood as well as the blood of the Slav. Wild adventurers they were, forayers and destroyers from the far lands beyond the Sea of Bering, who blasted the new and unknown world with fire and sword and clutched greedily for its wealth of fur and hide.

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He have follow the wake of the berserker Icelander, the devil-begotten Hun, the Slav, the Saxon, the Magyar.

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Laws bless you, honey, when I's slav' aroun', en dey 'buses me, if I knows you's a-sayin' dat, 'way off yonder somers, it'll heal up all de sore places, en I kin stan' 'em."

By agreement, the conversation in Roxy's presence was all about the man's "up-country" farm, and how pleasant a place it was, and how happy the slaves were there; so poor Roxy was entirely deceived; and easily, for she was not dreaming that her own son could be guilty of treason to a mother who, in voluntarily going into slavery--slavery of any kind, mild or severe, or of any duration, brief or long--was making a sacrifice for him compared with which death would have been a poor and commonplace one.

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My gay American horizons were bathed in the vast melancholy of the Slav, patient, agnostic, trustful.

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"Lord God of might, God of our salvation!" began the priest in that voice, clear, not grandiloquent but mild, in which only the Slav clergy read and which acts so irresistibly on a Russian heart.

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As the rage and fear-filled countenance of the Slav turned toward her Jane Clayton raised the heavy revolver high above the pasty face and with all her strength dealt the man a terrific blow between the eyes.

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The Baltimore Amer- ican, of March 17, 1845, relates a similar case of atrocity, perpetrated with similar impunity--as fol- lows:--"~Shooting a slave.~--We learn, upon the au- thority of a letter from Charles county, Maryland, received by a gentleman of this city, that a young man, named Matthews, a nephew of General Mat- thews, and whose father, it is believed, holds an of- fice at Washington, killed one of the slaves upon his father's farm by shooting him.

It may, perhaps, be fairly questioned, whether any other portion of the population of the earth could have endured the privations, sufferings and horrors of slavery, without having become more degraded in the scale of humanity than the slaves of African descent.

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Why, those first ragged Slavs in their first little deals with us only made something like two and three thousand per cent.