Pronunciation : Slav
Part of Speech : n.;pl.
Etymology : [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. ?ru to hear. Cf. Loud.] (Ethnol.)
Definition : Defn: 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.]
Slavs.
Source : Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913