yugoslav
/ˈjuːɡəˌslɑːv/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.03 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of, relating to, or characteristic of Yugoslavia or Yugoslavs.
noun
A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia.
Example Sentences
- "Due to Greek objections, North Macedonia was often referred to as the "former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia" for many years."
- "A small band of men, all very Yugoslav-looking, were sitting in the bar, talking politics."
- "Titoism was a local variety of Stalinism, very Yugoslav in its nature but also very totalitarian."
- "But most alarming at the assembly in Vladikavkaz was the evident hatred of the Chechens, the lurid talk of Chechen atrocities, and of most of Chechnya being ‘ancient Terek Cossack land’, for which ‘we must fight to the last Cossack, after the glorious example of our ancestors’ – all very Yugoslav."
- "Milka also spoke of her sister’s reaction to the collapse of the former Yugoslavia and ongoing media reports of the conflict. The participant’s sister was, before the war: / … very Yugoslav, she adored Yugoslavia and that’s why she’s so hurt."
- "In the summer of 1991, in the disputed areas of Croatia, the army vainly searched for an aim to justify its existence. It fought a war against Croatian independentists on behalf of a Serbian ‘Yugoslav’ leadership which had not officially entered a war that was not declared, and allowed outside gangs to do most of the dirty work. It did this allegedly to save Yugoslavia. In the process the very mixed and very Yugoslav town of Vukovar was destroyed before it fell, Dubrovnik was blockaded and shelled, and its surroundings were pillaged by military units and volunteers from Montenegro."
Etymology
Word Breakdown
- Root: Jugoslàvēn
Usage
Inflected Forms
more Yugoslav (comparative)
most Yugoslav (superlative)
Jugoslav (alternative, dated)
Yugoslavs (plural)