(n.) A native of Croatia, in Austria; esp., one of the native Slavic race.
(n.) An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.
Example Sentences:
(1) Although Barcelona still needed another, Álvaro Morata’s goal increasing the nerves, and although the Croat’s goal would not prove the winner, the sentiment will be similar in Catalonia now too.
(2) They spoke one language and had lived for many years next to each other not quite knowing who was Serb and who was Croat.
(3) Long continued harassing Lovren for the remainder of the half, the Croat eventually earning a yellow card for chopping down his tormentor.
(4) Within days of finding Omarska, I was heading for the town of Capljina, and revealed the camp nearby, called Dretelj, run by a Croat-Muslim militia called HOS.
(5) After the first few days, Mladic will be able to mix with the prison's other 36 war crimes defendants of various nationalities, including other Serbs, Croats and Bosnian Muslims.
(6) Most of the convicted are Serbs, few are Croats and fewer still Bosnian Muslims.
(7) Running at the visiting defence, N’Doye produced a cunning disguise pass that the Croat Jelavic took in his stride and dispatched past Brad Guzan via a looping deflection.
(8) Artem Fedetskyi launched a long forward pass, Nikola Kalinic flicked it on for Matheus, who then crossed for the Croat to head low past Sergio Rico.
(9) Juve will pay €15m for Mandzukic, who completed his medical in Turin on Monday, with another €3m in performance-related add-ons with the Croat seen as a replacement for Carlos Tevez, who is expected to leave this summer.
(10) So she chose celibacy and became a virdzina (virgin in the Montenegrin dialect of Serbo-Croat).
(11) The Croat kicked every pass, jumped to head every high ball into the box, railed at the Polish referee, sank to his haunches when Liverpool attacked and leapt up and down as Besiktas formed a wall to defend a Jordan Henderson free-kick from 25 yards.
(12) Karadzic faces charges of genocide and crimes against humanity inflicted on Bosnian Muslim, Bosnian Croat and other non-Serb civilians in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the 1992-95 war, when he was president of the breakaway Republika Srpska.
(13) But for many Serbs and also for many Croats, their national struggle in the 19th century is still in their minds," said Esad Hecimovic, the editor of news programmes on OMT, the private television station that has been airing the soap opera about Suleiman the Magnificent.
(14) The Bosnians, the Serbs and the Croats were never called “tribes”, and the conflict was placed in the context of the Cold War, old allegiances, and competing nationalisms.
(15) Gospic, a 33-year-old Croat who had lost 13 of his 29 bouts, all against little‑known fighters, provided Chisora with minimal resistance, and it was called off two minutes and 23 seconds into the third.
(16) Although both Serbian and Croat nationalists were culpable of violence and responsible for ethnic cleansing, it was the eastern, orthodox Serbian side that was portrayed as the sole perpetrator.
(17) It is a weak state, split by a 1995 peace agreement into two entities, a federation of Muslims (known as Bosniaks) and Croats, and a Serb republic.
(18) Do the Bosnian Muslims and Bosnian Croats not have a right to justice?
(19) I am Ratko Mladic, I did not kill Croats as Croats, and I am not killing anyone in Libya or in Africa … I was just defending my country."
(20) The portents for victory appeared good given the Croat’s record – he found the net in each of Hull’s past three victories – combined with Villa’s impotence away from home.
Croatian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Croatia.
(n.) A Croat.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten experiments were conducted on visually presented Serbo-Croatian words and pseudowords, comprising phonemically similar and dissimilar context-target sequences.
(2) Murray meets the Croatian Maric Cilic in the semi-final on Thursday and, in all probability, Roger Federer in the final on Sunday.
(3) The kidnap and beheading of Croatian national Tomislav Salopek by the Islamic State affiliate Sinai Province in August 2015 was seen as an unusual instance of kidnap of a foreign national in Egypt.
(4) Based on secret documents, mainly from the Czech civil aviation authority, unearthed after more than a year of research, Hornung said he did not believe the aircraft was blown up by Croatian nationalists as the Yugoslav government, backed by Czechoslovakian authorities, claimed at the time.
(5) Kawa, a 30-year-old agricultural engineer from north-eastern Syria , reckoned it was better to wait it out at the gates of Hungary until he got word that the Croatian route worked.
(6) Drama in the woman's discus Perkovic leads after throwing a Croatian record of 69.11m and Pishchalnik, the pre-competition is down in fifth.
(7) But in the late 90s, a wave of young Croatian wine-makers started working with malvasia, a neglected Istrian white grape, unfashionable because of its perceived poor quality, and also teran, a better-regarded dark varietal.
(8) Following the Croatian rout of the Serbian rebels, the war was over and Croatia's independence secured.
(9) November 27, 2013 Labour Press Team (@labourpress) The Tories introduced the Croatian accession treaty bill to parliament in 2013, making no changes to the transitional controls regime.
(10) He described the Croatian prime minister’s handling of the refugees as “pathetic.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Hungarian police monitor a large group of migrants and refugees at a border crossing between Hungary and Croatia at Beremend.
(11) "Marriage is the only union enabling procreation," Croatian cardinal Josip Bozanic said in his message to followers.
(12) At the back end you have the Serbian police, and at the front end you have the Croatian police,” said Twaij by telephone.
(13) In July 2012, in waters south of the Croatian island of Mljet, a boat without a captain was sighted, with 65 migrants on board.
(14) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Refugees trapped on the Croatian border light a fire to keep warm after the border crossing is shut.
(15) Collecting the ball some 25 yards from goal, the Croatian danced past Zat Knight and rifled a shot into the net from the edge of the box.
(16) In 1937 a separate Neurophysiological Section was founded with in the Croatian Medical Association.
(17) To evaluate whether Croatian output in medicine is incorporated into the mainstream of the world science or suffers from the intellectual island effect, the extent of the journals' coverage by high quality international secondary literature, is examined.
(18) In defense preparations, leading faculty members, supervised by the Croatian Government, have: 1. prepared the University hospitals for the case of mass casualties, 2. initiated donation of essential medical supplies and equipment, and 3. prepared the preclinical staff and facilities for research, documentation and information services for Crisis management.
(19) Last month, Egypt’s branch of the Islamic State group beheaded a Croatian oil worker who was abducted near Cairo, at the edge of the Western Desert.
(20) At Dinamo Zagreb, he publicly stated he had no motivation to play against the “village teams” of the Croatian League.