Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- proper noun A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.
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- noun a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia
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Examples
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In calling this _A Book of Jugoslav Fairy Tales and Folk Tales_ I have used the word Jugoslav in its literal sense of Southern Slav.
The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911
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Then he caught sight of an advert in the gazetta, which was on the table - a lovely smecking young ptitsa with her groodies hanging out to ad - vertise, my brothers, the Glories of the Jugoslav Beaches.
Where's the show? John Myles Aavedal 2010
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If Serbia and Montenegro go their separate ways (as seems inevitable along with the rise of a fourth literary standard) I'd say Yugoslav (I prefer the spelling Jugoslav but I realize that's a minority opinion).
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Jugoslav politics are very complicated and I make no pretence of being an expert on them.
As I Please 1945
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They found it in a rumor which started, no one knows where, that an influential American diplomat was in the snares of a Jugoslav mistress.
Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 1931
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All the rest, as everyone who was informed knew, merely delayed the impending Jugoslav revolt.
Public Opinion Walter Lippmann 1931
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A large Jugoslav population on the Julian Alps and in
Woodrow Wilson and the World War A Chronicle of Our Own Times. Charles Seymour 1924
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They gave him a pair of temporary trousers, an undesirable pair of trousers belonging to a short fat man with no taste in fabrics, and with these flapping about his lean legs, he sat behind a calico curtain, reading _The War Cry_ and looking at a "fashion-plate" depicting nine gentlemen yachtsmen each nine feet tall, while the Jugoslav in charge unfeelingly sprinkled and ironed and patted his suit.
Free Air Sinclair Lewis 1918
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Yet these tales as presented do give the reader a true idea of the amazing vigor and the artistic inventiveness of the Jugoslav imagination, and also of the various influences, Oriental and Northern as well as Slavic, which have made that imagination what it is to-day.
The Laughing Prince Jugoslav Folk and Fairy Tales Parker Fillmore 1911
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He will be consoled for the restoration of Serbia by the prospect of future conflicts between Italian and Jugoslav that will let him in again to the
What is Coming? 1906
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