Czechoslovak

or Czech·o-Slo·vak

[ chek-uh-sloh-vak, -vahk ]

noun

1. a member of the branch of the Slavic peoples comprising the Czechs proper, the Moravians, and the Slovaks.
2. a native or inhabitant of the former Czechoslovakia.

adjective

1. of or relating to to the former Czechoslovakia, its people, or their language.

Czechoslovak

/ ˌtʃɛkəʊˈsləʊvæk /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or characteristic of the former Czechoslovakia, its peoples, or their languages

noun

1. (loosely) either of the two mutually intelligible languages of the former Czechoslovakia; Czech or Slovak

Example Sentences

Four of them – now in their 80s and 90s – attended the ceremony for the street, which runs past a small train station from where tens of thousands of Czechoslovak Jews were deported during the Holocaust.

From BBC

She spoke sitting on a chair on the same railway platform where tens of thousands of Czechoslovak Jews were herded onto trains bound for the Theresienstadt ghetto.

From BBC

Vista Outdoor reiterated its support for the proposed sale of its ammunition division to the Czechoslovak Group after a rival bidder walked away.

From New York Times

The investment firm MNC Capital on Monday raised its bid for the company to $3 billion, DealBook is first to report, hoping that a more generous offer — and further uncertainty that a rival bidder, the Czechoslovak Group, can pass a U.S. national security review — will win over Vista’s shareholders.

From New York Times

As a leading expert in his field, he worked in a senior position at the Nuclear Physics Institute of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and was professor at Charles University.

From Seattle Times