Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to Russia, an empire in eastern Europe with large possessions in northern and central Asia, or the Russians or their language.
- n. A native or a citizen of Russia; a member of the principal branch of the Slavic race, forming the chief part of the population of European Russia, and the dominant people in Asiatic Russia.
- n. A Slavic language, belonging to the southeastern branch (which includes also the Bulgarian). Its chief form is the Great Russian; other important dialects are Little Russian and White Russian. Abbreviated Russian
- n. The principal dialect of Russia, and the basis of the literary language.
- n. The Russian dialect spoken by the Little Russians and Ruthenians.
- n. The dialect of the Red Russians.
- n. The dialect of this branch.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Of or pertaining to Russia, its inhabitants, or language.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a native or inhabitant of Russia
- n. the Slavic language that is the official language of Russia
- adj. of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language
Examples
“On the other hand AH's Russian Front I used to find to be a chillingly stark game: the russian player is trying to buy time by sacrificing space and units; the germans are in a desperate rush to strike a decisive blow across vast spaces before winters and the reinforcement schedule turns against them.”
“I am seriously considering making a youtube special series of Mark Learns Russian, where I film the bemused looks I get when I speak my best russian.”
“Between 1979 and 1985 this writer/artist duo detailed the adventures of RAF pilot Johnny "Red" Redburn on the Russian front in Battle Magazine as the commander of the elite Falcons fighter squadron fighting against the german invaders ....and his russian commanders and the nkvd.”
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“Elsewhere: Mighty Russian Morsels mighty russian morsels was originally published on smittenkitchen.com all content and photos © 2006 - 2009 smitten kitchen”
“I have nothing against the Russian my girlfriend is russian people but in all this choosing we were virtually the top Candidate but IMHO all Blatter and his cohorts looked at was the Premier League they all despise for whatever reason and not the other Football League fans like me a North Ender travelled 3500 miles to watch us against”
“I also want to learn many languages, including Russian, German, French, Mandarin, and possibly Icelandic (Of course this is a 'dream' I might just end up really learning russian and German well without the rest of them, but I'd love to learn them all if I could).”
“Alex you could be a Russian Actor in any American movie and nobody but Russians will know that you are not actually russian.”
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“Clinton Urges Russian Support on Iran clinton is in sparring'with russian pretenders”
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“He his Russian Jew,they call themself russian mob”
“Russian brides and beautiful russian ladies dating.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘russian’.
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Power to the demonyms!
muscovite, mancunian, oxonian, liverpudlian, damascene, glaswegian, cantabrigian, lyonnais, arkansawyer, sydneysider, haligonian, bay stater and 166 more...
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On with their heads!
Words that make other words with the addition of one letter at the beginning. The resulting words are tagged "behead".
men, his, yes, any, iota, limb, aged, laid, land, lead, read, word and 327 more...
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Capitonyms or capitonyms
Capitonyms are, properly, words which change meaning and sound when they change case. This particular list may also erringly include words which change meaning, but not sound. These are improper. S...
Turkey, turkey, China, china, August, august, Bill, bill, Catholic, catholic, Ionic, ionic and 94 more...
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Salad Dressings
ranch, thousand island, Italian, Dorothy Lynch, creamy Italian, garlic ranch, Balsamic Vinaigrette, house italian, Olive Oil Vinaigr..., Raspberry Hazelnu..., Red Wine Vinaigrette, goddess dressing and 27 more...
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Capitonyms, capitonyms
Words that change meaning when capitalized
worms, welsh, turkey, time, tangier, tang, slough, seat, scotch, scone, said, russian and 70 more...
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The Tower of Babble
When I was in third grade an extra credit assignment I did was to make a list of at least fifty languages. I got to fifty, then kept going... and going... and going. Even twenty years later, I am ...
english, spanish, italian, french, russian, mandarin, cantonese, arabic, japanese, korean, farsi, hebrew and 88 more...
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bm_'s Words
test, а, вот, вообще, и, интере�?ный, �?ерви�?, непон�?тный, habrahabr, bm, global-net, uptime and 6 more...
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Shakespeare Adaptations
So I went to see Love's Labor's Lost in the park. The play was set (just as Willie intended) in India in the 1960s. Clearly, it needs a list.
visor, russian, electric guitar, palm tree, drum set, flip, astronaut, pose, motorcycle, mark, man, mask
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languages
names of languages
english, french, swedish, chinese, mandarin, cantonese, chiac, spanish, german, basque, latin, portuguese and 84 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for russian.
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