Meaning & use
Cyrillic
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Relating to the alphabet used for Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian, and several other Slavic and Central Asian languages.
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Street signs in Bulgaria are written in Cyrillic script.
She learned to read Cyrillic before studying Russian grammar.
A note on using this word
Named after Saint Cyril, the ninth-century missionary credited with developing an earlier Slavic alphabet from which Cyrillic evolved.
Another way to use it
2. noun
The alphabet itself, used to write various Slavic and other languages.
Cyrillic has 33 letters in its modern Russian form.
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