Croat
pronunciation
How to pronounce Croat in British English:
UK [ˈkrəuət]
How to pronounce Croat in American English:
US [krot, ˈkroˌæt]
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- Noun:
- a member of the Slavic people living in Croatia
Word Origin
- Croat (n.)
- from Serbo-Croatian Hrvat "a Croat," from Old Church Slavonic Churvatinu "Croat," literally "mountaineer, highlander," from churva "mountain" (compare Russian khrebet "mountain chain").
Example
- 1. A croat heads a new balkan regional group based in sarajevo .
- 2. Many voters dislike mr nikolic , whose party broke from an extreme nationalist one in which he was deputy to a leader who once promised to gouge out croat eyes with a rusty spoon .
- 3. Tensions between bosnia 's fractious ethnic groups mounted when the eu 's representative irked croats by quashing an election-commission ruling that had paralysed politics in the federation ( the muslim and croat part of the country ) .
- 4. After bagging an italian manager , it splashed out on two brazilians , an argentinian , an italian and zlatan ibrahimovic , a swedish striker ( pictured ) whose father was a bosnian muslim and mother a croat .