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[ yoo-goh-slahv, -slav ] / ˈyu goʊˌslɑv, -ˌslæv /
nouna native or inhabitant of the former country of Yugoslavia. a southern Slav; a member of the southern group of Slavic peoples.Compare Slav. adjectiveof or relating to the Yugoslavs. Origin of Yugoslav1850–55; earlier Jugo-Slav<German Jugoslawe<Serbo-Croatian Jugoslòvēn, Jugoslàvēn, equivalent to jȕg south + -o--o- + Slovēn, SlavēnSlav OTHER WORDS FROM Yugoslavpro-Yu·go·slav, noun, adjectiveWords nearby Yugoslavyucko, yucky, Yuga, yugarie, Yugo., Yugoslav, Yugoslavia, Yugoslavian, yuk, Yukaghir, Yukagir Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for YugoslavTwenty years on from the Yugoslav wars, the wounds and memories are still raw. Serbia and Croatia’s Competing Genocide Claims|Adam LeBor|March 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST Both countries accuse each other of genocide during the Yugoslav wars of the early 1990s. Serbia and Croatia’s Competing Genocide Claims|Adam LeBor|March 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST At the time, she was working on Yugoslav war crime trials at the International Criminal Tribunal. New Facebook Project Imitates Virtual Iranian Prison|Nina Strochlic|February 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST The Yugoslav crew was very nice and helpful, but you had to be careful. Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview|Alex Belth|February 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
It goes without saying that these sentiments are perfectly well known to those Albanians who live outside the Yugoslav frontier. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2|Henry Baerlein Thirteen Yugoslav schoolmasters at Pola were thus deprived of their means of livelihood. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2|Henry Baerlein The Yugoslav (read: Serb) army – ostensibly the side that lost the war – is vibrant and defiant. After the Rain|Sam Vaknin And that does not take into account the western Banat and other Yugoslav territories. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2|Henry Baerlein Sixty new detectives were taken on by the Yugoslav authorities, and fifty-six of them had to be dismissed. The Birth of Yugoslavia, Volume 2|Henry Baerlein
British Dictionary definitions for Yugoslav
noun(formerly) a native, inhabitant, or citizen of Yugoslavia (sense 1 or 2) (not in technical use) another name for Serbo-Croat (def. 1) adjective(formerly) of, relating to, or characteristic of Yugoslavia (sense 1 or 2) or its people Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |