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.
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adjective
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Etymology
Origin of Cyrillic
1835–45; < New Latin Cyrillicus, equivalent to Cyrill ( us ) Saint Cyril + -icus -ic
Example Sentences
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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
Bulgarian, like Russian, uses the Cyrillic alphabet, and a complex grammar structure.
From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2025
One of them begins, “And now I watch another era fade, / Cyrillic letters scraped from shuttered storefronts, / tar-crusted bread, stale fish, stiff marmalade / sit sulking on the shelves, unchosen orphans.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 16, 2022
Nearby, another fence bore an inexpertly painted “CCCP,” the Cyrillic acronym for “USSR.”
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2022
It had been Cyrillic, the script that Russian and Ukrainian were written in.
From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros
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