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  • noun Plural form of Slav.

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Examples

  • What nationalities are generally included under the term Slavs?

    Aliens or Americans? 1895

  • With them the expression Slavs meant only the southern Slavs; they called the Russians Antae, and distinguished sharply between the two groups of tribes.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Cabot, declaring that the country was being overrun by “undesirables”—namely Slavs and Italians—announced that he did not intend to stand by and watch “the quality of American citizenship decline.”

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • Cabot, declaring that the country was being overrun by “undesirables”—namely Slavs and Italians—announced that he did not intend to stand by and watch “the quality of American citizenship decline.”

    The Five of Hearts Patricia O'Toole 2008

  • The majority of modern scholars agree that the “original home” of the Slavs was the territory to the southeast of the Vistula and to the northeast of the Carpathian Mountains, in the upper basins of the Western Bug, the Pripet, and the Dniester.

    4. Eastern Europe, 1000-1300 2001

  • In three waves, the peoples who had been agriculturalists in your land since the 6th century AD, and who were known as the Slavs, came to Canada to seek a new life.

    Ukrainian-Canadian Co-operation 1994

  • Catholic Church among the Slavs, which island is distinguished by a _noble catholicity_.

    The Religious Spirit of the Slavs (1916) Sermons On Subjects Suggested By The War, Third Series Nikolai Velimirovi�� 1918

  • The earliest Russian chronicle, erroneously ascribed to the monk Nestor, always calls the Slavs as a whole

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • In the eighth and ninth centuries the Czechs and Slavs of the Elbe were generally called Slavs, but also at times Wens, by the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Eastward and southward bristle the Slavs, and behind the Slavs are the colossal possibilities of Asia.

    An Englishman Looks at the World 1906

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