Church Slavic

A form of Church Slavonic — A liturgical language of various Slavic church traditions, with dialectal basis of Old Church Slavonic mixed with vernacular lexical and phonological developments.

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Old Church SlavonicOld Church SlavicOld BulgarianOld Bulgarian languageChurch Slavic languageOld Church Slavic languageOld Church Slavonic language

Meanings

proper noun
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Church Slavonic.

Synonyms & antonyms

nounthe Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the 9th century

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Old Church SlavonicOld Church SlavicOld BulgarianOld Bulgarian languageChurch Slavic languageOld Church Slavic languageOld Church Slavonic language

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Cite this entry
APA

Church Slavic. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Church%20Slavic

MLA

“Church Slavic.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Church%20Slavic. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Church Slavic,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Church%20Slavic.

Source: Church Slavic on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.