Lithuanian
Americanadjective
noun
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Lithuanians
plural
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a native or inhabitant of Lithuania.
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a Baltic language, the official language of Lithuania. Lith, Lith.
adjective
noun
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the official language of Lithuania: belonging to the Baltic branch of the Indo-European family
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a native or inhabitant of Lithuania
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Lithuanian
First recorded in 1600–10; Lithuani(a) ( def. ) + -an
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This sharp, darkly comic film follows a Lithuanian couple that splits up just as Russia invades Ukraine.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026
A spokesperson said the Lithuanian government did not "see any scope for entering into practical arrangements of this kind".
From BBC ● Aug. 12, 2026
Rudolph Arthur Marcus was born July 21, 1923, in Montreal, the only child of American-born Myer Marcus and English-born Esther Marcus, both of Jewish Lithuanian descent.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2026
“Then we went to the far north side of Chicago to a Lithuanian neighborhood to play some grizzled old guys upstairs at the top of an old, smoky bar. They creamed us.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 25, 2026
In the end, the Lithuanian community did not rise to the bait.
From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield
It asks whether the constitution should be amended to allow dual citizenship for hundreds of thousands of Lithuanians living abroad.
From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2024
Lithuanians, Estonians, Ukrainians, Uzbeks and Moldavians all reveled in their newfound independence.
From Salon ● Oct. 21, 2023
His parents were Jewish Lithuanians but his mother never really settled in the US and she took Al and his three younger brothers back to Lithuania for six years.
From BBC ● Apr. 11, 2023
Ms. Pettitt, for one, would welcome more Poles, Latvians or Lithuanians to Boston — “that would be fantastic,” she said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 23, 2023
More than three hundred Lithuanians and Finns moved mountains of food and supplies they would never again touch.
From "Between Shades of Gray" by Ruta Sepetys
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