sloven

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[edit] Etymology

From Middle Flemish sloovin (a scold) realated to sloef (untidy, shabby), from Proto-Germanic *slup- + Old French suffix -ain, from Latin -anus Related to slob, slow, sloth, slush, slurp, sloof, slattern, and slut.

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Singular
sloven

Plural
slovens

sloven (plural slovens)

  1. A man or boy habitually negligent of neatness and order; -- the male equivalent of slattern, or slut; untidy, dirty.
  2. low, base, lewd
  3. (obsolete) immoral woman

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sloven

  1. Plural form of sloof.

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sloven m. (definite singular slovenen; indefinite plural slovener; definite plural slovenene)

  1. Person from Slovenia

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Serbian Sloven.

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  • IPA: [slo'ven]

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sloven 4 nom/acc forms

  1. (of a person) Slovene, Slovenian

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sloven m. (plural slovenifeminine equivalent slovenă)

  1. a Slovene/Slovenian person

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Inflection for sloven Singular Plural
common Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sloven slovenen slovener slovenerna
Genitive slovens slovenens sloveners slovenernas

sloven

  1. A person from Slovenia, chiefly male

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