Slovakian

English

Etymology

From Slovakia +‎ -an or Slovak +‎ -ian.

Adjective

Slovakian (not comparable)

1. Of or pertaining to Slovakia, a country in Central Europe.
   • 2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN‎^[1]:

     One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

Derived terms

• Slovakian Wirehaired Pointer

Translations

of or pertaining to Slovakia — see Slovak

Noun

Slovakian (plural Slovakians)

1. A person from Slovakia or of Slovakian descent.
   • 2005 January 26, Steve Goldberg, “Barber to the SS, witness to the Holocaust”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     But he was arrested crossing the Polish-Slovak border, and the Slovakians handed him to the Germans.

Synonyms

• Slovak

Related terms

• Czechoslovakia
• Czechoslovakian

Translations

a person from Slovakia or of Slovakian descent — see Slovak

Further reading

• Ethnologue entry for Slovakian, slk ⁠