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Russian /ˈrʌʃ(ə)n /adjectiveRelating to Russia, its people, or their language.A Russian language children's club has been running in the area for two years and is now expanding into a proper nursery school, open to children aged between 2 ½ and five....- Law enforcement authorities are convinced the far-right is responsible for the detonation of a bomb aimed at Russian Jews attending a language school in Duesseldorf last month.
- Back then, I actually feared a second year of Russian language.
noun1A native or inhabitant of Russia, or a person of Russian descent.Though not a native Russian, he was on the staff of the Imperial Theatres in St Petersburg and played in a court chamber ensemble....- With a Finn, a Russian, two Canadians, and an American, this year's Hall, of Fame class exemplifies the game's global reach.
- They told us that the Russians would never accept National Missile Defense.
1.1 historical (In general use) a national of the former Soviet Union.The most flagrant example that showed how the Russians disposed of political dissenters took place in Czechoslovakia. 2 [mass noun] The language of Russia, an Eastern Slavic language written in the Cyrillic alphabet and spoken by over 130 million people.Most of the men included in these teams and groups spoke Russian and other languages of the Soviet Union and were dressed up as Red Army men and officers....- Like Russian, it is written in the Cyrillic alphabet.
- She speaks Kazakh, Russian, English and Italian.
Derivatives Russianist /ˈrʌʃ(ə)nɪst/ noun ...- The book is nothing less than "a celebration of personality," to cite the apt formulation of the distinguished Russianist John B. Dunlop.
Russianization /rʌʃ(ə)nʌɪˈzeɪʃ(ə)n/ noun ...- The latter was the sector most incommoded by Russianization, for the kinds of jobs it fancied required good command of the Russian language (and sometimes, officially or unofficially, Russian birth).
- He sees the assertion of paganism as a revolt against the Russianization that had been an integral part of communism.
- Socialism and nationalism gave way to Islamization, Hinduization, and Russianization.
Russianize /ˈrʌʃ(ə)nʌɪz/ (also Russianise) verb ...- Would ballet aspirants called Jane or John Smith, who years ago might have considered Russianizing their names to Yolanda Smithova or Jascha Smithakoysky, instead contemplate some Hispanic transmogrification?
- In the 17th century the advancing Russians adopted pelnan, eventually Russianizing the pronunciation to pel'meni, and pel'meni in chicken broth is now a classic Russian dish.
- This theme, which he has managed to Russianise, dominates much of the work.
Russianness /ˈrʌʃ(ə)nnɪs/ noun ...- Their very Russianness, their sense of their own self-defeating contradictions, brings despair with it.
- This was partly in pursuit of rationalizing, modernizing reform, partly because - very much in line with trends elsewhere - the state was increasingly associating itself with an idea of ethnic Russianness.
- Like the gathering of mushrooms and berries, the eating of prjaniki, and the consumption of shchi, the drinking of kvass in late Tsarist Russia had become a culture-laden act that helped to define one's Russianness.
Origin Mid 16th century: from medieval Latin Russianus. Rhymes Belorussian, Prussian |