Slovakian

1. not comparableOf or pertaining to Slovakia, a country in Central Europe.

   One Terrorgram user livestreamed himself stabbing five people outside of a mosque in Turkey, she said, and a 19-year-old Slovakian man praised the group in a manifesto before killing two people at an LGBTQ bar in Bratislava, the capital of Slovakia.

   2024 September 9, Hannah Rabinowitz, “Alleged leaders of White supremacist group charged in effort to encourage terrorism and hate crimes”, in CNN

   Synonyms: Slovak

plural Slovakians

1. A person from Slovakia or of Slovakian descent.

   But he was arrested crossing the Polish-Slovak border, and the Slovakians handed him to the Germans.

   2005 January 26, Steve Goldberg, “Barber to the SS, witness to the Holocaust”, in CNN

   Synonyms: Slovak

1. Synonym of Slovak.

   Over lunch, a delightfully dewey-eyed apiarist, there to assist Libertíny delivers a passionate eulogy in Slovakian to the honey bee.

   2012 July 9, Stuart Jeffries, “Hive talking: Tomás Libertíny's bee art”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2016

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   Ben’s appallingly intelligent. He speaks about eight languages fluently. I’ve done foreign press junkets and film festivals with him, and he’ll be doing one interview in Polish and one in Italian and be fielding questions in Slovakian or whatever.

   2001 February 25, Ellen Baskin, quoting Noah Taylor, “Once Upon a Time, When Truths Ran Deep”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los Angeles Times Communications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 02 Sep 2026

   Belica made regular appearances in Slovakian media along with David Ward, Liberal Democrat MP for Bradford East, who recorded a YouTube broadcast in Slovakian to reassure the eastern European community.

   2013 January 9, Ann Czernik, “A radical year in the north”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2014

   He would not let the Guardian go out on patrol with him, and when he saw us chatting to a group of youths at around 8pm on Wednesday night he told them in Slovakian to not talk to us.

   2013 November 15, Helen Pidd, “Slovakian Roma in Sheffield: 'This is a boiling pot ready to explode'”, in Alan Rusbridger, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 16 Nov 2013

   If Johanna Konta is to continue her new-found love affair with the clay of Roland Garros, she will have to outsmart an opponent who is studying for a degree in international relations and diplomacy, and reads Hamlet in her spare time – in Slovakian. […] As for Shakespeare, the 21-year-old Slovak revealed: […] “They are also translated into Slovakian but I prefer them in English. It’s fairly ‘easy’ poetry so I can understand it in English. But I would never understand Shakespeare in English. I read Shakespeare in Slovakian.”

   2019 May 30, Kevin Mitchell, “Johanna Konta faces meeting of minds with Viktoria Kuzmova in French Open”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 30 May 2019

   Synonyms: Slovak