Ukrainian

//juːˈkɹeɪ.nɪ.ən// adj, name, noun

adj, name, noun ·Moderate ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A citizen of Ukraine or a person of Ukrainian ethnicity.

    "In general, it is permitted the ſubjects to utter their complaints and to make a repreſentation of them. Thus, the nobility may ſend deputies: this the Ukrainians have long been accuſtomed to do, as also the Livonians and Eſthonians: […]"

  2. 2
    the Slavic language spoken in the Ukraine wordnet
  3. 3
    a native or inhabitant of the Ukraine wordnet
Adjective
  1. 1
    Relating to Ukraine or its people or language. not-comparable

    "The Muſcovite, Novogrodian, and Ukrainian dialects, are the moſt uſed in Ruſſia, together with that of Archangel, which greatly reſembles the Siberian."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or characteristic of Ukraine or its people or culture wordnet
Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The East Slavic language of Ukrainians, and the official language of Ukraine.

    "It [Old Slavonic] is the root of both branches of the living Russian language: of Great Russian, which is the literary and official Russian, as well as of Ukrainian, or Southern Russian. There are, moreover, no popular dialects in our country. The fourteen millions of Ukrainians, settled in the plains of south-west Russia, all speak exactly the same language."

Example

More examples

"The Ukrainian language is very melodious."

Etymology

From Ukraine + -ian (suffix meaning ‘from; like; related to’, forming adjectives; or ‘one belonging to, from, like, or relating to’, forming nouns).

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