adjective Relating to the Slavs, their cultures, or their languages.
- Russian, Polish, and Czech are all Slavic languages.
- Forty-five-year-old Maria Sedlakova, a small dark roly-poly woman with high cheekbones in a very Slavic face, interrupted furiously.
— Michel Salomon, Prelude: Death of a Regime . . . June–December 1967 (1971)
noun The branch of Indo-European languages spoken by Slavic peoples.
- Belter is composed mainly of Chinese, Japanese, Slavic, Germanic, and romance languages because Earth's most common tongues would be the ones to survive to form the new brogue of the cosmos.
— Emily Dreyfuss, That Cool Dialect on The Expanse Mashes Up 6 Languages (2017)
- She is studying the history of Slavic across Eastern Europe.
- It is a commonly known fact that formal marks of perfective aspect in Slavic are prefixes.
