Yugoslavianadj.n.
/ˌjuːɡə(ʊ)ˈslɑːvɪən/, U.S. /ˌjuɡoʊˈslɑviən/, /ˌjuɡəˈslɑviən/ rare before the formation of the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (later Yugoslavia), in 1918; see note at Yugoslav n. 1.
A. adj.
= Yugoslav adj.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of former Yugoslavia > [adjective]
Yugoslav1853
Yugoslavian1864
Serbo-Croatian1870
Yugo1941
Jug1949
1864 Viscountess Strangford Eastern Shores Adriatic in 1863 vi. 37 I have gradually worked my way round from ten-kreuzer notes and Yugo-slavian wire-pulling.
1919 Times 5 Feb. 7/4 Bulgaria would join such a Yugo-Slavian Confederation [of autonomous countries] as a Republic.
1924 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 448 They cannot effectively crush the revolutionaries on Yugoslavian soil.
1953 A. Smith Blind White Fish in Persia x. 204 Firstly, our Yugoslavian visas had not come through.
1977 New Yorker 19 Sept. 49/2 There was a Yugoslavian boy who had brought along a portable silent keyboard with a weight attached to each key, to regulate the action.
2001 Daily Post (Liverpool) (Nexis) 24 Dec. 22 He will try to revive a deal to prise Yugoslavian striker Savo Milosevic away from Parma in his search for a consistent goalscorer.
2011 S. Wales Echo (Nexis) 26 Oct. 14 A team of firefighters are returning from Serbia today after delivering a fleet of old fire engines to services in the former Yugoslavian state.
B. n.
1. With reference to a person: = Yugoslav n. 1.
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the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Europe > native or inhabitant of former Yugoslavia > [noun]
Yugoslav1853
Serbo-Croat1865
Yugoslavian1918
Yugo1919
Jug1949
1918 N.Y. Times 3 July 5/2 To assemble at 3 p.m... Jugoslavians. Wooster St., head of column at Waverley Place, facing north.
1930 Manch. Guardian 19 Dec. 6/3 The amount of food Jugo-Slavians can eat on a festive occasion like this is little short of amazing.
1962 A. Lurie Love & Friendship ii. 31 They didn't have them [sc. Boy Scouts] in Yugoslavia. Anyway, only for Yugoslavians.
1983 Times 3 Oct. 1/4 The Greek and the Yugoslavian were accustomed to the heat.
2008 D. J. Levitin World in 6 Songs v. 156 How are Homerian epics, or the long oral histories and ballads of the Yugoslavians,..remembered?
2. With reference to language: = Serbo-Croatian n. 2. Cf. Yugoslav n. 2.
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the mind > language > languages of the world > Indo-Hittite > [noun] > Indo-European > Balto-Slavic > Slavonic > Serbo-Croat
Bosnian1668
Croatian1825
Croat1849
Serbo-Croatian1877
Montenegrin1894
Serbo-Croat1907
Yugoslavian1924
Štokavian1925
Yugoslav1948
1924 Rep. Commissioner of Educ. (U.S. Bureau Educ.) 18 These [translations] were from 21 languages and included..Hungarian, Yugoslavian, Norwegian..Portuguese, and Rumanian.
1949 E. Pound Pisan Cantos (new ed.) lxxx. 96 White boy says: do you speak Jugoslavian?
2002 T. F. Sonneman Shared Sorrows ix. 98 They picked me to bring the message there because I could speak Yugoslavian. And I blended in with the Yugoslavian kids.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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