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Yugoslav

Jugoslav \Jugoslav\ prop. n. A native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia. [Also spelled Yugoslav.]

Syn: Yugoslav, Yugoslavian, Jugoslavian.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Yugoslav

1853, from Slav + Serbo-Croatian jugo- "south," comb. form of jug "south, south wind, noon," from Old Church Slavonic jugu "south, south wind, noon."

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Yugoslav

Yugoslav refers to:

  • Yugoslavia
    • Kingdom of Yugoslavia, during 1918-1943
    • Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, during 1943-1992
    • Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, also known as Serbia and Montenegro, 1992-2000
  • Yugoslavs (referring to the peoples of the former Yugoslavia or people who self-identify as Yugoslavs)
  • Yugoslavism, nationalism in the South Slav peoples of southeastern Europe before 1918

Usage examples of "yugoslav".

Even in the 1960s the idea of the Croatian banovina of 1939 fascinated him, and he considered it an acceptable model for a future solution of the Yugoslav question.

British came into the country a week or so later, from Italy, they were surprised to find Yugoslav partisans running amok in the Carinthian and Styrian provinces.

Somehow certain circles In Hungary knew of a letter sent by Stojadinovic, Yugoslav Prime Minister, to Count Ciano, in which he stated that in connection with the Czechoslovakian affair he would not interfered aggressively against Hungary.

Yugoslavia that still had a common Yugoslav representation, although with decreasing authority and unity.

If, on the other hand, he delivered different sections of it at different times and places, how could he have elaborated the variations on theme and formula and the inner structural correspondences that distinguish the Homeric epics so sharply from the Yugoslav texts collected by Parry and Lord?

Congress of Yugoslav Writers in 1952 in Ljubljana, and the speech he delivered there marked the final decline of Socialist Realism.

It was not difficult to sum them up as three Corsicans, three Germans, three vaguely Balkan faces, Turks, Bulgars, or Yugoslavs, and three obvious Slavs.

Russian entrepreneurs developed anti virus software, Yugoslavs offered web design services, electronic media flourished in the Czech Republic and so on.

The Sten submachine gun Captain Hughson had given him in Vis was now in the hands of an admiring Yugoslav partisan.

In the late 1980s, the dimensions of the Stepinac issue grew as the conflicting Serb and Croat positions hardened under the weight of increased poverty, an annual inflation rate of several thousand percent, and the fragmentation of the Yugoslav federation.

We call it the Mohorovicic Discontinuity, after the Yugoslav scientist who discovered it by analysis of seismic tracings.

The ties between the Yugoslav and British royal families are very close -especially the blood ties.

Thank God, he is a good, sturdy Yugoslav, not a vaporing Frenchman prone to pitapatation.