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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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}.]
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