slav

1. 1.

   speaking a Slavic language

   “the Slav population of Georgia”

Other forms of slav

plural

slavs·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about slav

What does slav mean?

slav means "any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in slav?

slav has 1 syllable: slav. In IPA it is /ˈslɑv/.

Is slav a common word?

slav is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with slav?

1 word rhymes with slav. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.