Slavonic

1 of 2

adjective

Sla·​von·​ic slə-ˈvä-nik 

: slavic

Slavonic

2 of 2

noun

1

: slavic

2

: old church slavic

Examples of Slavonic in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

This splendid exhibition was gotten underway by Helen C. Evans, who for many decades has stunned the public with exhibitions of the art of Byzantium and its relations with its immediate neighbors in the Islamic and the Slavonic worlds. —Peter Brown, The New York Review of Books, 24 Sep. 2020

Noun

That year, the Slavonic Corps, a predecessor of Wagner, was contracted by an unknown Syrian client to seize oil fields in the east, in roughly the same area where the February 7 fighting took place. —Neil Hauer, Foreign Affairs, 26 Feb. 2018

Word History

Etymology

Adjective

New Latin slavonicus, from Medieval Latin Sclavonia, Slavonia, the Slavic-speaking countries, from Sclavus Slav

First Known Use

Adjective

circa 1645, in the meaning defined above

Noun

1668, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Phrases Containing Slavonic

• Church Slavonic

Kids Definition

Slavonic

1 of 2 adjective

Sla·​von·​ic slə-ˈvän-ik 

: slavic entry 1

Slavonic

2 of 2 noun

: slavic entry 2