Czech
UK/t͡ʃɛk/
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Australia/t͡ʃek/
Czech adjective: of, from, or pertaining to Czechia, the Czech people, culture, or language.
Adjective
Czech (not comparable)
- Of, from, or pertaining to Czechia, the Czech people, culture, or language.
- A big beast of the men's field was put through the mangle then dumped out of Wimbledon as Rafael Nadal fell at around 10.06pm to Lukas Rosol, a Czech debutant who will never forget this Thursday evening in south-west London.2012 June 28, Jamie Jackson, “Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal”, in The Guardian
Noun
Czech (countable and uncountable, plural Czechs)
- A person from the Czech Republic (Czechia) or of Czech descent.
- By 1963, almost 130,000 Czechs had migrated to this country. They tended to gravitate to the farming communities.1964, John F. Kennedy, “Immigration Policy”, in A Nation of Immigrants, Revised and Enlarged edition, Harper & Row, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 61
Proper noun
Czech
- A Slavic language primarily spoken in the Czech Republic.
- By the time this mysterious knight died in the 1360s, his book was available in every European language, including Dutch, Gaelic, Czech, Catalan, and Walloon.2001 December 2, Giles Milton, “'The Riddle and the Knight'”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 19 Apr 2022
- The Czech Republic (Czechia).
- She's from Czech, Croatia, or somewhere over there. The ill thing is that we always come together when we're drunk, but half way through our drunken talks, she always gets mad at something and leaves.2008, George Stowers, Straight Up, No Sippin': Memoirs of Life and Work Onboard Mega Cruise Ships, →ISBN, page 325
- A whole array of companies and consultants are found travelling to Croatia or Czech or China, to extol the latest virtues of electioneering, perhaps via the UK Westminster Foundation for Democracy, […]2009, Jennifer Lees-Marshment, Political Marketing: Principles and Applications, Routledge, →ISBN, page 237
Czech meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
Czech in Hindi
- of, from, or pertaining to the country, people, culture or language
- चेक cek
- language
- चेक cek
Czech in Tamil
- language
- செக் cek
Czech in Marathi
- of, from, or pertaining to the country, people, culture or language
- चेक cek
- person
- चेक cek
- language
- चेक cek
Czech in Urdu
- of, from, or pertaining to the country, people, culture or language
- چیک cek
- language
- چیک cek
More languagesFewer languages
- Czech in Bengali
- চেক cek
- Czech in Kannada
- ಜೆಕ್
- Czech in Gujarati
- ચેક cek
- Czech in Sinhala
- චෙක් cek
- Czech in Pashto
- چکي čekí
- Czech in Tagalog
- Tseko
- Czech in Arabic
- تْشِيكِيّ tšīkiyy, تْشِيكِيَّة tšīkiyya
- Czech in Malay
- Czech, orang Czech, bahasa Czech
- Czech in Indonesian
- Ceko
- Czech in Persian
- چک ček, چکی čeki
- Czech in Thai
- เช็ก chék, ชาวเช็ก, ภาษาเช็ก
- Czech in Vietnamese
- Séc, Tiệp, người Séc, người Tiệp
- Czech in Myanmar
- ချက် hkyak
- Dhivehi
- ޗެކް cek̊
Synonyms of Czech
Forms of Czech
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| alternative form | Cz. |
| Noun | |
| plural | Czechs |
Origin of Czech
Unadapted borrowing from Polish Czech, from Old Polish Czech, from Old Czech Čech, ultimately a variation and contraction of Proto-Slavic *čelověkъ (“human”).
Words formed from Czech
Phrases with Czech
Words that rhyme with Czech
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Questions about Czech
- What does Czech mean?
- Czech means of, from, or pertaining to Czechia, the Czech people, culture, or language.
- What is Czech in Hindi?
- Czech in Hindi is चेक (cek). See Czech meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Czech?
- Czech can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce Czech?
- Czech is pronounced /t͡ʃɛk/ (UK).
Words near Czech in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Czech (page history and authors); Czech (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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