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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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
This Baltic nation of 1.3 million people saw early in the artificial-intelligence revolution that most of its high-school students were offloading schoolwork to chatbots.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 1, 2026
Several attempts were made to get the whale - nicknamed "Timmy" and "Hope" - back into the North Sea, after it got stuck in the Baltic Sea in March.
From BBC • May 31, 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
He wasn’t in Stockholm, though, to stalk the cobblestoned streets of Old Town, or walk through the underground tunnels, or ready himself for a cruise on the Baltic Sea.
From "Endgame" by Frank Brady
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