1
: of or relating to the Baltic Sea or to the states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
2
: of or relating to a branch of the Indo-European language family containing Latvian, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian see Indo-European Languages Table
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Estonia and the other Baltic states are among the highest spenders in NATO on defense developments, but some members, such as Spain, have lagged on meeting those targets.
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Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
By September, the Soviets had lost not only all the territorial gains of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, including the Baltic states, Moldavia, and western parts of Ukraine and Belarus, but also the capitals of those two republics, first Minsk and then Kyiv.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Bordered by Russia to the east and Latvia to the south, the tiny Baltic country is bound by the Gulf of Finland in the north, the Baltic Sea in the west and Lake Peipus in the east.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
The 2025 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has unveiled the selection of documentaries in its Doc@PÖFF International and Baltic competitions, with Baltic documentaries and feature films set to compete in separate programs for the first time.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
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Peter Aitken, MSNBC Newsweek, 26 Oct. 2025
By September, the Soviets had lost not only all the territorial gains of the 1939 Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact with Germany, including the Baltic states, Moldavia, and western parts of Ukraine and Belarus, but also the capitals of those two republics, first Minsk and then Kyiv.
—Literary Hub, 23 Oct. 2025
Bordered by Russia to the east and Latvia to the south, the tiny Baltic country is bound by the Gulf of Finland in the north, the Baltic Sea in the west and Lake Peipus in the east.
—Rosemary Feitelberg, Footwear News, 23 Oct. 2025
The 2025 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (PÖFF) has unveiled the selection of documentaries in its Doc@PÖFF International and Baltic competitions, with Baltic documentaries and feature films set to compete in separate programs for the first time.
—Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Baltic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Baltic. Accessed 1 Nov. 2025.
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Baltic
adjective
Bal·tic
ˈbȯl-tik 
1
: of or relating to the Baltic Sea or to the states of Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
2
: of or relating to a branch of the Indo-European languages containing Latvian, Lithuanian, and Old Prussian
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