Baltic
['bɔ:ltik]
Definition
(noun.) a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European.
(noun.) a sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy.
(adj.) of or near or on the Baltic Sea; 'The Baltic republics' .
(adj.) of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baltic States or their peoples or languages .
Checked by Alissa--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Of or pertaining to the sea which separates Norway and Sweden from Jutland, Denmark, and Germany; situated on the Baltic Sea.
Checker: Phelps
Examples
- Already we have noted (chap, xxix, name of Goths from the Baltic to the Black Sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They continued to move south-eastward across Russia, using the rivers and never forgetting their Baltic watercraft. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The Russian Baltic Fleet sailed round Africa to be utterly destroyed in the Straits of Tshu-shima. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I've been in the Levant, where some of your Middlemarch goods go--and then, again, in the Baltic. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Before history began there was already some Aryan canoe-traffic across the English Channel and in the Baltic, and also among the Greek islands. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They were a Teutonic people, and we have already marked them crossing the Baltic in the map on page 301. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- As the Christian propaganda of Charlemagne swept towards the shores of the North and Baltic seas, the pagans were driven to the sea. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
Typist: Vivienne