[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

slav \slav\ slaumv or sla^v, n.; pl. slavs. a word
   originally meaning, intelligible, and used to contrast the
   people so called with foreigners who spoke languages
   unintelligible to the slavs; akin to oslav. slovo a word,
   slava fame, skr. ,cru to hear. cf. loud. ethnol.
   one of a race of people occupying a large part of eastern and
   northern europe, including the russians, bulgarians,
   roumanians, servo-croats, slovenes, poles, czechs, wends or
   sorbs, slovaks, etc. written also slave, and sclav.
   1913 webster
see also:
slavs loud slave sclav 

[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0

slav
     adj : speaking a slavic language; "the slav population of georgia"
     n : any member of the people of eastern europe or asian russia
         who speak a slavonic language

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