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Definition of 'slava'

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Orthodox Christian custom of honoring a family patron saint celebrated chiefly by the Serbs, but also by some Macedonians, Bulgarians, Croats and Gorani.
  • * 1942': I was also enchanted at the opportunity of seeing a '''''Slava'' (the word means ‘Holy’), which is the distinctive social custom of the Serbs. — Rebecca West, ''Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006, p. 753)
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    silva, sulfa, saliva, salvia, selva, sulpha, salpa, solfa, sylva, shilfa