Definitions

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

  • noun A native or inhabitant of Serbia; a Serb.
  • noun The South Slavic language of the Serbs, written in a Cyrillic alphabet.
  • adjective Of or relating to Serbia or its people, language, or culture.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as Servian.

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

  • noun A person from the Balkan country of Serbia.
  • noun A Serb.
  • proper noun The standardized variety of Serbo-Croatian, a South Slavic language, spoken by Serbs.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to Serbia and Serbians.
  • adjective Of or pertaining to Serbian language.

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

  • noun a member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries
  • adjective of or relating to the people or language or culture of the region of Serbia

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Examples

  • MILORAD SAVICEVIC, SERBIAN BUSINESSMAN: He destroyed the Serbian states, actually.

    CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2002 2002

  • FIVE CONVICTED, FORMER SERBIAN PRESIDENT CLEARED OF KOSOVO CRIMES Five former high-ranking Yugoslav and Serbian political, military and police officials were today convicted by the Former Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister, Nikola Šainović, and two generals, Nebojša Pavković and Sreten Lukić, were each sentenced to 22 years 'imprisonment for crimes against humanity and war crimes.

    unknown title 2009

  • FIVE CONVICTED, FORMER SERBIAN PRESIDENT CLEARED OF KOSOVO CRIMES Five former high-ranking Yugoslav and Serbian political, military and police officials were today convicted by the Former Yugoslav Deputy Prime Minister, Nikola Šainović, and two generals, Nebojša Pavković and Sreten Lukić, were each sentenced to 22 years 'imprisonment for crimes against humanity and war crimes.

    unknown title 2009

  • Darko told him to help lift my luggage into the trunk in Serbian and he did.

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

  • This priest blessed me and told Darko in Serbian he could not hear my confession owing to his not understanding English well.

    Radovan Karadzic's website and blog 2008

  • Bulgaria was primarily interested in Serbian territory, especially Macedonia, which it had lost in the Treaty of Bucharest of 1913.

    Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

  • So, with an average IQ of 89, we are to believe that the average Serbian is only about 4 points into the normal range?

    Recruiting Laplanders as Professors Richard Nokes 2006

  • I had to honour to be interviewed for PunMiris.com, an online perfume magazine and perfume community in Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian.

    Interview on PunMiris.com Ayala Sender 2007

  • I had to honour to be interviewed for PunMiris.com, an online perfume magazine and perfume community in Croatian, Serbian and Bosnian.

    Archive 2007-06-01 Ayala Sender 2007

  • Serbian is written in the Cyrillic alphabet, is identified with the Eastern Orthodox branch of the Catholic Church, and borrows its high-culture words from the east -- from Russian and Old Church Slavic.

    Should English Be the Law? 1997

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