Baltic
Americanadjective
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of, near, or on the Baltic Sea.
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of or relating to the Baltic States.
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of or relating to a group of languages, as Latvian, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian, that constitute a branch of the Indo-European family.
noun
adjective
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denoting or relating to the Baltic Sea or the Baltic States
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of, denoting, or characteristic of Baltic as a group of languages
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informal extremely cold
noun
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a branch of the Indo-European family of languages consisting of Lithuanian, Latvian, and Old Prussian
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short for Baltic Sea
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Also called: Baltic Exchange. an international market for shipbrokers in the City of London: formerly housed in the Baltic Exchange building which was demolished after terrorist bomb damage in 1992
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This Baltic nation of 1.3 million people just gave all of its 10th and 11th graders their own ChatGPT accounts to use for school.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 5, 2026
Goethe's amber collection, now housed at the Goethe National Museum and managed by the Klassik Stiftung Weimar, contains 40 pieces of Baltic amber.
From Science Daily • Jun. 4, 2026
There have also been multiple reports of cables damaged in the Baltic Sea.
From BBC • May 30, 2026
Both had been principal conductor of the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra and also worked together on the summer Baltic Sea Festival that Salonen created with the orchestra.
From Los Angeles Times • May 26, 2026
The wind off the Baltic was making her hair fly around.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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