English adjective: Baltic | |||
1. | Baltic of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baltic States or their peoples or languages | ||
2. | Baltic of or near or on the Baltic Sea | ||
Samples | The Baltic republics. | ||
English noun: Baltic | |||
1. | Baltic (object) a sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy | ||
Synonyms | Baltic Sea | ||
Instance hypernym | sea | ||
Part holonym | Gulf of Bothnia, Gulf of Finland, Gulf of Riga | ||
2. | Baltic (communication) a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European | ||
Synonyms | Baltic language | ||
Broader (hypernym) | Balto-Slavic, Balto-Slavic language, Balto-Slavonic | ||
Narrower (hyponym) | Latvian, Lettish, Lithuanian, Old Prussian | ||