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Bulgarians

Bulgarians is the plural of Bulgarian.

Meaning of Bulgarian

Noun

Bulgarian (countable and uncountable, plural Bulgarians)

  1. (countable) A native of Bulgaria.
    • Actually, this ethnic situation—a “macédoine” of peoples—was complicated even more from the 1860s on when some of the Slavs in Macedonia who had always called themselves Bulgarians (and were considered so by most foreign experts) began developing a Macedonian national consciousness.2014, Raymond Detrez, Historical Dictionary of Bulgaria, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 305
  2. (uncountable) The official language of Bulgaria.
    • The big advantage of learning Russian is that, once you’re proficient, you can understand other Slav languages such as Czech, Polish or Bulgarian.2021 April 25, John Malathronas, “Which languages are easiest – and most difficult – for native English speakers to learn?”, in CNN, archived from the original on 22 Mar 2022

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Questions about Bulgarians

What is Bulgarians the plural of?
Bulgarians is the plural of Bulgarian.

Words near Bulgarians in the dictionary

  1. Bulgarianize
  2. Bulgarianized
  3. Bulgarianizes
  4. Bulgarianizing
  5. Bulgarianness
  6. Bulgarians
  7. Bulgaric
  8. Bulgarism
  9. Bulgarisms
  10. Bulgarist
  11. Bulgaristics

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Bulgarians (page history and authors); Bulgarian (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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