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Czech
1[ chek ]
noun
- a member of the most westerly branch of the Slavs, comprising the Bohemians, or Czechs proper, and, sometimes, the Moravians.
- the language of Bohemia and Moravia, a Slavic language similar to Slovak.
- (loosely) Czechoslovak.
adjective
- Also Czechish.
- of or relating to the former Czechoslovakia, its people, or their language.
- of or relating to the Czech Republic, its people, or their language.
Czech.
2abbreviation for
- Czechoslovakia.
Czech
/ tʃɛk /
adjective
- of, relating to, or characteristic of the Czech Republic, its people, or its language
- of, relating to, or characteristic of Bohemia and Moravia, their people, or their language
- (loosely) of, relating to, or characteristic of the former Czechoslovakia or its people
noun
- the official language of the Czech Republic, belonging to the West Slavonic branch of the Indo-European family; also spoken in Slovakia. Czech and Slovak are closely related and mutually intelligible
- a native or inhabitant of the Czech Republic
- a native or inhabitant of Bohemia or Moravia
- (loosely) a native, inhabitant, or citizen of the former Czechoslovakia
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Other Words From
- an·ti-Czech adjective noun
- non-Czech adjective noun
- pro-Czech adjective noun
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Word History and Origins
Origin of Czech1
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Example Sentences
The former Czech leader, once a global darling of libertarians, is losing friends fast.
Ambassador Shirley Temple Black attributed this to the “deeply risk-averse psychology of the Czech people.”
The wounded Czech soldier succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Prague on July 14.
The bombing left another Czech soldier and eight others wounded.
The following year, in 1998, the U.S. Senate voted 80 to 19 to admit Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic into NATO.
One of them spoke some Czech, tried to understand what was being said.
Denmark and Sweden followed suit with translations, and the expression “eternal Jew” passed as a current term into Czech.
An impressive phenomenon in the sunny afternoon; with Daun expectant of them, and the Czech populations well hidden underground!
High up on the steeple, mending the clock-hands or I know not what, hung in mid-air one Czech; the only living thing we saw.
In the beautiful idea of Brezina, the Czech poet, all ideal aims are floating islands that recede as we approach them.
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