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Czech
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- 1 Of, from, or pertaining to the Czech Republic (Czechia), the Czech people, culture, or language. not-comparable
"A big beast of the men's field was put through the mangle then dumped out of Wimbledon as Rafael Nadal fell at around 10.06pm to Lukas Rosol, a Czech debutant who will never forget this Thursday evening in south-west London."
- 1 of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language wordnet
- 1 A Slavic language primarily spoken in the Czech Republic. uncountable
"By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon."
- 2 The Czech Republic (Czechia). nonstandard
"She's from Czech, Croatia, or somewhere over there. The ill thing is that we always come together when we're drunk, but half way through our drunken talks, she always gets mad at something and leaves."
- 1 A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent. countable
"By 1963, almost 130,000 Czechs had migrated to this country. They tended to gravitate to the farming communities."
- 2 the Slavic language of Czechs wordnet
- 3 a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia wordnet
- 4 a native of inhabitant of the Czech Republic wordnet
Etymology
Unadapted borrowing from Polish Czech, from Old Polish Czech, from Old Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).
Unadapted borrowing from Polish Czech, from Old Polish Czech, from Old Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).
Unadapted borrowing from Polish Czech, from Old Polish Czech, from Old Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).
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