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Meaning of "Cyrillic" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CYRILLIC

Cyrillic  [sɪˈrɪlɪk] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CYRILLIC

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Cyrillic can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES CYRILLIC MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Cyrillic script

The Cyrillic script /sɨˈrɪlɪk/ is an alphabetic writing system employed across Eurasia. It is based on the Early Cyrillic, which was developed in the First Bulgarian Empire during the 9th century AD at the Preslav Literary School. It is the basis of alphabets used in various languages, past and present, in parts of the Balkans and Northern Eurasia, especially those of Slavic origin, and non-Slavic languages influenced by Russian. As of 2011, around 252 million people in Eurasia use it as the official alphabet for their national languages. About half of them are in Russia. Cyrillic is one of the most used writing systems in the world. Cyrillic is derived from the Greek uncial script, augmented by letters from the older Glagolitic alphabet, including some ligatures. These additional letters were used for Old Church Slavonic sounds not found in Greek. The script is named in honor of the two Byzantine brothers, Saints Cyril and Methodius, who created the Glagolitic alphabet earlier on. Modern scholars believe that Cyrillic was developed and formalized by early disciples of Cyril and Methodius.

Definition of Cyrillic in the English dictionary

The definition of Cyrillic in the dictionary is denoting or relating to the alphabet derived from that of the Greeks, supposedly by Saint Cyril, for the writing of Slavonic languages: now used primarily for Russian, Bulgarian, and Serbian. Other definition of Cyrillic is this alphabet.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CYRILLIC


acrylic
əˈkrɪlɪk
allylic
ˈælɪlɪk
basilic
bəˈsɪlɪk
basophilic
ˌbeɪsəˈfɪlɪk
bibliophilic
ˌbɪblɪəʊˈfɪlɪk
carboxylic
ˌkɑːbɒkˈsɪlɪk
coumarilic
ˌkuːməˈrɪlɪk
electrophilic
ɪˌlɛktrəʊˈfɪlɪk
eosinophilic
ˌi:əʊˌsɪnəˈfɪlɪk
Gaelic
ˈɡeɪlɪk
hydrophilic
ˌhaɪdrəʊˈfɪlɪk
idyllic
ɪˈdɪlɪk
imbecilic
ˌɪmbɪˈsɪlɪk
killick
ˈkɪlɪk
lipophilic
ˌlɪpəʊˈfɪlɪk
mesophilic
ˌmɛsəʊˈfɪlɪk
monocarboxylic
ˌmɒnəʊˌkɑːbɒkˈsɪlɪk
neutrophilic
ˈnjuːtrəˌfɪlɪk
nucleophilic
ˌnjuːklɪəʊˈfɪlɪk
thermophilic
ˌθɜːməʊˈfɪlɪk

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CYRILLIC

Cypriot
Cypriote
cypripedia
cypripedium
cypris
cyproheptadine
cyproterone
Cyprus
cypsela
cypselae
Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrenaic
Cyrenaica
Cyrene
Cyril
Cyril of Alexandria
Cyrillic alphabet
Cyrus

WORDS THAT END LIKE CYRILLIC

bimetallic
gallic
glycollic
heterothallic
homothallic
intermetallic
intervallic
ithyphallic
medallic
metallic
monometallic
multimetallic
nonmetallic
organometallic
orsellic
phallic
prothallic
pyrogallic
semimetallic
vanillic

Synonyms and antonyms of Cyrillic in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Cyrillic» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF CYRILLIC

Find out the translation of Cyrillic to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Cyrillic from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Cyrillic» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

西里尔
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

cirílico
570 millions of speakers

English

Cyrillic
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

सिरिलिक
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

السيريلية
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кириллица
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

cirílico
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সিরিলিক
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

cyrillique
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cyrillic
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

kyrillisch
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

キリル文字
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

키릴
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cyrillic
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Cyrillic
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

சிரிலிக்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सिरिलिक
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kiril
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cirillico
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

cyrylica
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

кирилиця
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

chirilic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

κυριλλικό
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Cyrillic
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

kyrilliska
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

kyrillisk
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Cyrillic

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CYRILLIC»

The term «Cyrillic» is very widely used and occupies the 21.413 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «CYRILLIC» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Cyrillic

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CYRILLIC»

Discover the use of Cyrillic in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Cyrillic and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Cyrillic books printed before 1701 in British and Irish ...
The books come from presses that were sited in present-day Montenegro, Italy, Romania, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Serbia, Germany, England, Sweden, The Netherlands, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
Ralph Cleminson, British Library, 2000
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Digital Typography Using LaTeX
With X2, the user has more Cyrillic characters available. In addition to this, users are forced to switch languages using standard (babel-type) commands, and LATEX pays back with correct hyphenation for all languages used. To locally switch ...
Apostolos Syropoulos, Antonis Tsolomitis, Nick Sofroniou, 2003
3
X Protocol Reference Manual for X11, Release 6
Byelorussian Capital Letter Short U Cyrillic Capital Letter Dzhe Cyrillic Small Letter Vii Cyrillic Small Letter A Cyrillic Small Letter Be Cyrillic Small Letter Tse Cyrillic Small Letter De Cyrillic Small Letter le Cyrillic Small Letter Ef Cyrillic Small ...
Adrian Nye, 1995
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DocBook: The Definitive Guide
The following character entities are denned in this entity set: Entity Unicode * Glyph Description acy 0430 a Cyrillic small letter a Acy 0410 A Cyrillic capital letter A bcy 0431 6 Cyrillic small letter be Bcy 0411 B Cyrillic capital letter BE vcy 0432 ...
Norman Walsh, 1999
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The World's Writing Systems
TABLE 64.1: Letters Unique to the Roman and/or Cyrillic Alphabets and Letters Shared by the Roman and Cyrillic Alphabets phoneme phoneme Classification“ Cyrillic letter Cyrillic Roman phoneme phoneme Classification" Roman Roman ...
Peter T. Daniels, William Bright, 1996
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Linguistic Identity Matching
Today the Cyrillic script is used mainly for writing Slavic languages, such as Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Serbian, Macedonian and Bulgarian. As a result of Soviet influence, a number of Altaic languages such as Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and ...
Bertrand Lisbach, Victoria Meyer, 2013
7
PHP Developer's Cookbook
You want to convert from one Cyrillic character set to another (for example, Windows to ISO). Technique Use the convert_cyr_string( ) to convert between Cyrillic character sets: $str = convert_cyr_string ($str, 'w' , 'i'); Comments The brothers ...
Sterling Hughes, 2002
8
Modern TEX and Its Applications
2.13 Use of Cyrillic Fonts is not limited to Latin-based alphabets: it can be used just as well to typeset Cyrillic, Greek, and about any other language. In most cases, the issue is not how to make TgX typeset in a foreign language, but rather how ...
Michael Vulis, 1992
9
The Fundamentals of Typography: Second Edition
Ж Б Д З The Cyrillic alphabet The Cyrillic alphabet is based on Glagolitic ( developed by missionaries during the ninth century) and Greek. Developed in the tenth century, it is widely used in Slavic languages such as Belarusian, Bulgarian , ...
Gavin Ambrose, Paul Harris, 2011
10
Multilingualism in China: The Politics of Writing Reforms ...
Table 23 shows the completely new Cyrillic writing system for Uygur. This system had 32 letters to represent the 32 phonemes in Uygur: 24 letters were loaned from the Cyrillic alphabet and seven modified letters (p, x,, H,, K,, 9, y, and x,) were ...
Minglang Zhou, 2003

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CYRILLIC»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Cyrillic is used in the context of the following news items.
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Russian economic winds blow cold in Chinese border town
Cyrillic signs greet shoppers from the north, but traders say recession in Russia is hitting business. China has emerged as Russia's largest ... «Yahoo News, Jul 15»
2
Why Those Who Love To Travel Are Likely Those Who Love To Love
When I stand out in the midst of a busy highway in Serbia with my thumb out, surrounded by signs in Cyrillic and having thousands of strangers ... «Elite Daily, Jul 15»
3
The 'FGM App' That Could Save 60000 Girls' Futures
... out how old you look (lest you've forgotten your birthday), apps for transforming your hair colour, and apps for learning the cyrillic alphabet. «Marie Claire.co.uk, Jul 15»
4
With Empty Pockets, Putin Misses a Chance to Bring Greece into His …
Greece, a country that shares both a linguistic connection with Russia via the Cyrillic alphabet and a religious connection through Orthodox ... «The Fiscal Times, Jul 15»
5
7 Best Places to Visit in Bulgaria That are Safe and Beautiful
The official alphabet of Bulgaria is Cyrillic, so if you cannot understand warning signs be sure to ask. While you are checking all this amazing ... «Insider Monkey, Jul 15»
6
NFL Weekend: Front Office Fiction - July 4th...
It turned out they still didn't know exactly what they had, since all the boxes were labeled in Cyrillic? A quick search online of what they believed ... «Turf Show Times, Jul 15»
7
Plate with Cyrillic signs removed from Serb society's office
The Serb Democratic Forum, an association of ethnic Serbs, reported on Friday that a plate with the name of the association written in both ... «Dalje.com, Jul 15»
8
Croatia's Cold Civil War
Many in the audience were veterans who for weeks had been destroying street signs written in the Serbian Cyrillic script, angered by the ... «Transitions Online, Jul 15»
9
Plant collections left in the cold by cuts
The label identifying a sunflower from South America, brown with age, is written in the spidery Cyrillic scrawl of a nineteenth-century Russian ... «Nature.com, Jul 15»
10
Emerging Markets: Mongolia, Truly the Final Frontier
The Cyrillic alphabet has been in wide use since the 1940's, but the traditional Mongolian script that has become a compulsory subject in ... «Nasdaq, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Cyrillic [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/cyrillic>. May 2024 ».
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