Balt
UK/bɒlt/US/bɔlt/
Balt noun: an ethnic descendant of the Indo-European Baltic people, especially including ethnic Lithuanians, Latvians or Prussians, but generally not including ethnic Belarusians, Estonians, Germans, Jews, Livonians, Poles, Russians, Swedes or Tatars who have also inhabited or currently inhabit the modern Baltic states.
Noun
Balt (plural Balts)
- An ethnic descendant of the Indo-European Baltic people, especially including ethnic Lithuanians, Latvians or Prussians, but generally not including ethnic Belarusians, Estonians, Germans, Jews, Livonians, Poles, Russians, Swedes or Tatars who have also inhabited or currently inhabit the modern Baltic states.
- A native speaker of one of the Baltic languages: Lithuanian, Latvian, Old Prussian, Sudovian and related languages.
- An inhabitant of one of the modern Baltic states: Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia.
Forms of Balt
| plural | Balts |
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Origin of Balt
Back-formation from Baltic and/or Medieval Latin and Late Latin Balthae; see Baltic for more.
Words formed from Balt
Words that rhyme with Balt
Questions about Balt
- What does Balt mean?
- Balt means an ethnic descendant of the Indo-European Baltic people, especially including ethnic Lithuanians, Latvians or Prussians, but generally not including ethnic Belarusians, Estonians, Germans, Jews, Livonians, Poles, Russians, Swedes or Tatars who have also inhabited or currently inhabit the modern Baltic states.
- What part of speech is Balt?
- Balt is a noun.
- How do you pronounce Balt?
- Balt is pronounced /bɒlt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of Balt?
- The plural of Balt is Balts.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: Balt (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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