1. an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages); [syn: Cyrillic alphabet, Cyrillic]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Cyrillic alphabet
n 1: an alphabet derived from the Greek alphabet and used for
writing Slavic languages (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian,
Ukrainian, and some other Slavic languages) [syn: Cyrillic
alphabet, Cyrillic]