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Croats

Croats is the plural of Croat.

Meaning of Croat

Noun

Croat (countable and uncountable, plural Croats)

  1. (countable) A native or inhabitant of Croatia; a person of Croatian ethnicity.
    Synonyms:
    Croatian
  2. (countable, dated) An irregular soldier, generally from Croatia.
  3. (uncommon, uncountable) The Croatian lect.
    • It almost made him laugh. What could he possibly do in Ohio? Did Cleveland have a pressing need for secret policemen who spoke Croat?2012, Alen Mattich, Zagreb Cowboy, →ISBN, page 134

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Questions about Croats

What is Croats the plural of?
Croats is the plural of Croat.

Words near Croats in the dictionary

  1. Croatocentric
  2. Croatocentrism
  3. Croatology
  4. Croatophobia
  5. Croatoserbian
  6. Croats
  7. croc
  8. croc-off
  9. croc-offs
  10. crocacin
  11. crocacins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Croats (page history and authors); Croat (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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