Croatian
Americanadjective
noun
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Croatians
plural
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a Croat.
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Serbo-Croatian as spoken and written in Croatia, differing from Serbian chiefly in its use of the Latin alphabet.
adjective
noun
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the language that is spoken in Croatia, formerly regarded as a dialect of Serbo-Croat (Croato-Serb)
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a native or inhabitant of Croatia
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a speaker of Croatian
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Usage
See See at Bosnian
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Croatian
Example Sentences
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It “is performed in essentially the same way it has been done for over 400 years,” added Marko Mimica, a Croatian bass-baritone singer.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
Dubois stopped the Croatian in June 2024, but Hrgovic has since rebuilt his reputation, claiming the vacant IBF title with victory over British prospect Moses Itauma in August.
From BBC ● Oct. 18, 2026
Chuvalo was born in 1937 to Croatian immigrant parents, grew up in Toronto and got into boxing at a young age.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The research was carried out through a collaboration between the Department for Underwater Archaeology of the Croatian Conservation Institute and the 'ADRIBOATS' program of the Centre Camille Jullian at Aix-Marseille University in France.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 21, 2026
They had just returned from their summer vacation on the Croatian coast.
From "The Freedom Writers Diary" by The Freedom Writers
DD said most Croatians were "generally friendly", but without the ability to speak the local language, he had struggled to fit in.
From Barron's ● Feb. 16, 2026
It means that Croatians are bracing themselves for weeks of political horse-trading, to see if a governing coalition can be formed.
From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2024
The Croatians went into this latest batch of qualifiers atop Group D, with the chance to put daylight between them and Turkey.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 15, 2023
The amendment - which would also add a formal mention of other groups, including Croatians, Montenegrins, Slovenians and Jews - requires an enhanced two-thirds Parliamentary majority for approval.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 25, 2023
To this assembly, which met in Prague in June, 1848, came delegates from the Czechs, Moravians, Ruthenians, and Poles in the north, and the Servians and Croatians in the south.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson
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