Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Of or relating to the Czech Republic or its people, language, or culture.
  • noun A native or inhabitant of the Czech Republic.
  • noun A person of Czech ancestry.
  • noun The Slavic language of the Czechs.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A member of the most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of races, the term including the Bohemians, or Czechs proper, the Moravians, and the Slovaks. They number nearly 7,000,000, and live chiefly in Bohemia, Moravia, and northern Hungary.
  • noun The language of the Czechs, usually called Bohemian. It is closely allied to the Polish. See Bohemian, n., 5.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun One of the Czechs.
  • proper noun The language of the Czechs (often called Bohemian), the harshest and richest of the Slavic languages.
  • proper noun Of or pertaining to Czechoslovakia or the Czech Republic.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of, from, or pertaining to the Czech Republic or the Czech people, culture, or language.
  • noun A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.
  • proper noun A Slavic language primarily spoken in the Czech Republic.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia
  • adjective of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language
  • noun a native of inhabitant of the Czech Republic
  • noun the Slavic language of Czechs

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Polish, from Czech Čech.]

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From Polish Czech, from Czech Čech

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Examples

  • Promoted to Headline (H3) on 3/24/09: CZECH GOVERNMENT FALLS OVER STAR WARS RADAR yahooBuzzArticleHeadline = 'CZECH GOVERNMENT FALLS OVER STAR WARS RADAR'; yahooBuzzArticleSummary = 'Article: After two years of intense campaigning the forces of peace prevail and the Czech government falls after refusing to end their support for the US Star Wars radar.'

    CZECH GOVERNMENT FALLS OVER STAR WARS RADAR 2009

  • It's interesting because there are many Czech cities around that are not labeled “Czech”.

    Brazil « Climate Audit 2007

  • PRAGUE, CZECH REPUBLIC - It took five long months for a Czech woman to discover the reason for her pain: Doctors had left a foot-long medical tool inside her abdomen.

    Thestar.com - Home Page 2010

  • _All of us believe that neither the Czech nor the Polish nation will perish_, that even a great war cannot bring about their extirpation; that besides the war there is something greater than all human efforts, that the day of justice will also come, and that the _Czech and Polish nations not only must be but already are victorious_. "

    Independent Bohemia An Account of the Czecho-Slovak Struggle for Liberty Vladim��r Nosek 1929

  • It has been in the repertoire of the top Czechoslovakian players for several decades and it could be called the Czech variation of the Grunfeld defense.

    Lubomir Kavalek: It's Anand vs. Gelfand for the World Chess Crown Lubomir Kavalek 2011

  • It has been in the repertoire of the top Czechoslovakian players for several decades and it could be called the Czech variation of the Grunfeld defense.

    Lubomir Kavalek: It's Anand vs. Gelfand for the World Chess Crown Lubomir Kavalek 2011

  • For instance, in Czech or Slovak, you can apparently tell someone to stick their finger through their throat by saying Strč prst skrz krk (audio), a sentence where every word has a nucleic r in lieu of a vowel.

    2010 July « Motivated Grammar 2010

  • We shared an ethnic past, rooted in Czech traditions, including a love of stories and laughter.

    leo dangel | a memory of bears « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • From the description, also in Czech, it appears to be a copy of a postcard in some sort of postal museum.

    Girls Go Postal! | Warm Wishes 2010

  • From the description, also in Czech, it appears to be a copy of a postcard in some sort of postal museum.

    Girls Go Postal! | Warm Wishes 2010

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