serbo-croatian
/ˌsɜː(ɹ)bəʊkɹəʊˈeɪʃən/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.18 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The South Slavic language of which Bosnian, Croatian, Montenegrin and Serbian are literary standards.
name
The standard Shtokavian variety of that language first codified in the Vienna Literary Agreement and later used officially in Yugoslavia.
adj
In or pertaining to the Serbo-Croatian language.
Example Sentences
- "These conditions exist to some extent among other foreigners, but are not as prevalent among other nationalities in Johnstown as among the Serbo-Croatians."
- "Of 41 members of the Dalmatian Diet, only 6 were Italians, elected all in the town of Zadar, in consequence of the censitary and curial system of elections, and 35 were Serbo-Croatians. All the deputies sent to the Vienna Parliament were Serbo-Croatians."
- "There was a respectable smattering of Italians, a few Poles and Germans, one Serbo-Croatian, and an Englishman named Bill Bishop, whose sidekick I became."
- "[…]the illiteracy rate of Polish adults was 40 percent and among Serbo-Croatians was 77 percent, but among Germans only 6 percent."
- "Germany absorbed two million refugees from Eastern European Countries and the Russian Federation. The country has small groups of ethnic minorities of Italians, Serbo-Croatians, Greeks, Spanish, and about 98,000 Jews."
Etymology
From Serbo- + Croatian.
Inflected Forms
Serbocroatian (alternative)
SCr. (alternative)
Serbo-Croatians (plural)
more Serbo-Croatian (comparative)
most Serbo-Croatian (superlative)
Phrases
Wiktionary’s coverage of Serbo-Croatian terms
Frequently Paired Words
Wiktionary’s coverage of Serbo-Croatian terms
Bosnia
Bosnian
Croatia
Croatian
Montenegro
Montenegrin
Serbia