slavan.
/ˈslɑːvə/ Esp. among Serbs and Macedonians: a festival of a family saint; a name-day.
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commemorationa1400
suffragesa1400
saint's daya1450
memorial?1471
feast1559
memoration1563
name day1721
fête1805
Hallow-daya1825
calendar-day1847
fête day1877
slava1900
1900 ‘Odysseus’ Turkey in Europe viii. 372 The Slava, or festival of the family saint.
1920 Glasgow Herald 6 July 9 They told us of that country beyond, with its mountains and rivers, its peasant homes, its Slavas and songs of heroes—an Arcadia in truth.
1970 J. Brown Un-melting Pot v. 76 The household gods have had a central place in Yugoslav life since pre-Christian times and families today still have their household saints and keep their slava—their annual family days.
1976 New Yorker 22 Mar. 68/3 He remembers the priest blessing the house on his father's slava, or name day.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1900- by miracle
- by misadventure
- by misadvertence
- by mischance
- by mistake
- by most likelihood
- by mouth
- by moyen of
- by much
- by muleback
- by my beard
- by my christendom!
- by my coste
- by my etc tell
- by my faith
- by my fatherkin
- by my fidelity
- by my halidom
- by my his tell
- by my hood
- by my law
- by my life
- by my loyalty
- by my sang
- by my sheath