Cyrillic
Americanadjective
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noting or pertaining to a script derived from Greek uncials and traditionally supposed to have been invented by St. Cyril, first used for the writing of Old Church Slavonic and adopted with minor modifications for the writing of Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and some non-Slavic languages of Central Asia.
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of or relating to St. Cyril.
noun
adjective
noun
Etymology
Origin of Cyrillic
1835–45; < New Latin Cyrillicus, equivalent to Cyrill ( us ) Saint Cyril + -icus -ic
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Out of the debris, an employee lifted a carbon plate marked with Cyrillic letters -- a wing fragment from a Russian drone.
From Barron's ● Nov. 18, 2025
The Cyrillic script signs and Jelen Beer umbrellas indicate that this is Republika Srpska.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2025
Russian is often heard on the street and local hospitals have signs in Cyrillic script.
From New York Times ● Mar. 10, 2023
The holidays are past, even the post New Year’s Cyrillic parties we called “Serbian Christmas” growing up in western Pennsylvania are faint memories obscured by rocket booms in Ukraine.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 16, 2023
It had been Cyrillic, the script that Russian and Ukrainian were written in.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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