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单词 gulags
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gulag

noun

gu·​lag ˈgü-ˌläg How to pronounce gulag (audio)
often capitalized
: the penal system of the Soviet Union consisting of a network of labor camps
also : labor camp sense 1

Example Sentences

Recent Examples on the Web Vecna begin to vanish), and the gulag (where Hopper goes full barbarian to battle a demogorgon with just a sword) is fast, furious, and vastly more exciting than the earlier attempts at bouncing from group to group. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 1 July 2022 Australia outsources this work to a string of island nations sometimes described as its gulag archipelago. New York Times, 17 Apr. 2022 While this exact gulag may not have existed, the prison work depicted in the series seems to be taken from historic accounts; the USSR did use prisoner labor to construct rail lines connecting far eastern regions of the country. Josh St. Clair, Men's Health, 27 May 2022 Oh, and meanwhile, Hopper (David Harbour) is stuck in a Soviet gulag, because why not add that plot to this unpalatable stew? Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 24 May 2022 Ukrainians such as Vasyl Semenovych Stus, a poet who died in a Soviet gulag while on a hunger strike in 1985. Serhii Korolchuk, Washington Post, 23 May 2022 His father, variously identified as a teacher, journalist and poet, was purged during the Stalin era and sent to the Soviet gulag. Washington Post, 4 May 2022 Many of my relatives were forcibly deported to the Soviet gulag, never to return. Michael Bociurkiw, CNN, 9 June 2022 His grandfather spent time in a Soviet gulag for his opposition to the pro-communist Living Church movement. Grayson Quay, The Week, 29 May 2022 See More

Word History

Etymology

Russian, from Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'notrudovykh lagereĭ chief administration of corrective labor camps

First Known Use

1974, in the meaning defined above

gulags

noun

plural of gulag
as in prisons

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • prisons
  • jails
  • penitentiaries
  • stockades
  • prison camps
  • lockups
  • concentration camps
  • labor camps
  • tanks
  • cages
  • work camps
  • pens
  • brigs
  • coolers
  • guardrooms
  • big houses
  • coops
  • cells
  • hocks
  • bridewells
  • slammers
  • bastilles
  • jugs
  • stalags
  • jailhouses
  • wards
  • clinks
  • tolbooths
  • pokeys
  • quods
  • hulks
  • bull pens
  • cans
  • joints
  • nicks
  • dungeons
  • guardhouses
  • reformatories
  • stirs
  • slams
  • oubliettes
  • hoosegows
  • calabooses
  • glasshouses
  • keeps
  • holes
  • blocks
  • holds
  • reform schools
  • training schools
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