Czech

Czech
Czechs Czechs (ch[e^]ks), prop. n. pl.; sing. {Czech}. [Named after their chieftain, Czech.] (Ethnol.) The most westerly branch of the great Slavic family of nations, numbering now more than 6,000,000, and found principally in Bohemia and Moravia.

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