Definitions

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  • noun A native or inhabitant of Slavonia.
  • adjective Of or relating to Slavonia or its inhabitants.
  • adjective Of or relating to the Slavs or their language.

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Examples

  • mdash;my thought being that they surely wouldn't casually mention "Slavonian" without identifying it for the 99.99% of their readers who would confuse it with Slovenian and Slovakian if it registered at all.

    languagehat.com: SLAVONIAN. 2005

  • 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.

    NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010

  • After parting from Tim Hagan Young Dick spent a busy hour or so looking up one, Marcovich, a Slavonian schoolmate whose father ran a chop-house in which was reputed to be served the finest twenty-cent meal in the city.

    CHAPTER IV 2010

  • So spoke the old Russian governor, Baranov, at Sitka, in 1804, to one of his Slavonian hunters, who had just drawn from his pocket a handful of golden nuggets.

    The Gold Hunters of the North 2010

  • It did not matter whether the festival were Irish, German, or Slavonian; whether the picnic was the Bricklayers ', the Brewers', or the Butchers '.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • The two Slavonian hunters toiled upward till they grew small and smaller, and when they reached the top and waved their hats that all was well, they were like black specks against the sky.

    NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010

  • His comrades were Slavonian hunters and Russian adventurers, Mongols and Tartars and Siberian aborigines; and through the savages of the new world they had cut a path of blood.

    Lost Face 2010

  • Still Ivan doubted, and ordered two of his Slavonian hunters to go up alone.

    NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010

  • The Azelia 2006 Barolo is aged for two years in a mixture of large Slavonian oak botti and smaller barriques, importantly with no new oak.

    In Search of Barolo Will Lyons 2010

  • And near to him he heard the scuffle of a mighty Slavonian hunter, loath to die, and, half uprisen, borne back and down by the thirsty spears.

    NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010

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