vozhdn.
/vɒʒd/ A leader, one who is in supreme authority: applied esp. to the Russian statesman Joseph Stalin (1879–1953).
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1940 E. Lyons Stalin xxvii. 247 The ‘leader of the world proletariat’, the ‘greatest representative of creative Marxism’, the ‘great machinist of locomotive history’... These are typical titles bestowed on the Vozhd, the Leader, by officials who owed their jobs and their lease on life to Stalin.
1959 D. W. Treadgold 20th Cent. Russia xviii. 289 Even the top functionaries were subject to Stalin's supreme power, and the word Vozhd (Leader) came to be used openly to acknowledge and proclaim that fact.
1978 Encounter Feb. 42/1 The Vozhd of Moscow made his exit in triumph.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online December 2018).
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