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- noun A
linguist specializing in theSlavic family of languages.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Family lore (as interviewed in the Belfast Telegraph in 1940, subsequently unearthed by Slavicist Neil Cornwell, and recently republished by Manus O'Riordan here) has Wallach wandering around Belfast in a white Parisian linen suit and a Panama hat, puffing furiously on large cigars, and climbing Cave Hill for recreation.
Gibbon III nwhyte 2009
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First international convention of Slavicist librarians in Sarajevo - 22-24 April 2005 - Sarajevo - The central theme is: How do others see us?
February 2005 2005
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First international convention of Slavicist librar...
February 2005 2005
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Thank you, I did not know that and never would have guessed I'm obviously no Slavicist.
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In a Slavicist forum, of course, different factors come into play.
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Here is a field for a striving young Slavicist, provided he obtains, as André Maurois successfully did, access to the private collections of Dumas's letters in France.
Cranberry Sauce Struve, Gleb 1977
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Since the distaste which Brodsky feels for my translations matches that of another Slavicist, Simon Karlinsky, and since Brodsky translates into Russian and Karlinsky into English, I think it not unfair to close by juxtaposing a verse of Marina Tsvetaeva's, rendered by Karlinsky, against a very brief poem of Mandelstam, rendered by me.
Tongue-Tied Raffel, Burton 1974
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