Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of or pertaining to Livonia; Lettish.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Livonia, one of the Baltic provinces of Russia; specifically, a member of the primitive race of Livonia.
- noun The language formerly spoken by the Livonians.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to Livonia, a district on the Baltic Sea formerly part of Russia, now part of Latvia and Estonia.
- noun A native or an inhabitant of Livonia; the language (allied to the Finnish) of the Livonians.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A
Finno-Ugric language spoken inLatvia . - noun A
person fromLivonia . - adjective Pertaining to
Livonia orLivonians .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a member of the Livonian-speaking people of Latvia
- noun the Finnic language spoken by the people of Livonia in Estonia and Latvia
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Examples
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Some languages, such as Comanche, an Uto-Aztecan language spoken by Native Americans in the United States, or Livonian, a Uralic language used in Latvia, today claim fewer than two hundred speakers.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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Some languages, such as Comanche, an Uto-Aztecan language spoken by Native Americans in the United States, or Livonian, a Uralic language used in Latvia, today claim fewer than two hundred speakers.
The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010
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In the Livonian War (1558-1583) Ivan the Terrible was very kind to Livonian Prisoners for the first ten years of the war.
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It was most likely that Livonians were horribly cruel to Russians that surrendered and Russians found starvation to be a better end than Livonian torture.
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Her fears turned out to be groundless; the kind-hearted German kept Yakov with him, let him study with his other pupils, fed him (dessert, however, was not offered him except on Sundays), and rigged him out in clothes cut out of the cast-off morning-gowns — usually snuff-coloured — of his mother, an old Livonian lady, still alert and active in spite of her great age.
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Neither Michael Strogoff nor the young Livonian girl had any baggage.
Michael Strogoff 2003
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He was unwilling to leave the young Livonian girl alone on board, as she had not yet reappeared on deck.
Michael Strogoff 2003
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Was he thinking of the young Livonian girl who had been his traveling companion?
Michael Strogoff 2003
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At first it seemed strange that the son of an obscure Livonian gentleman should propose marriage to a
War and Peace 2003
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He again approached the young Livonian, and holding out his hand: “Sister,” said he.
Michael Strogoff 2003
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