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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Slav \Slav\ (sl[aum]v or sl[a^]v), noun; 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. [,c]ru 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}.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
Slav
adjective: speaking a Slavic language; "the Slav population of Georgia"
noun: any member of the people of eastern Europe or Asian Russia who speak a Slavonic language
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