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RUSSIAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Slavic language that is the official language of Russia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Hypernyms ("Russian" is a kind of...):
Slavic; Slavic language; Slavonic; Slavonic language (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages)
Domain region:
Russia; Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A native or inhabitant of Russia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Russian" is a kind of...):
aboriginal; aborigine; indigen; indigene; native (an indigenous person who was born in a particular place)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Russian"):
Chechen (a native or inhabitant of Chechnya)
Siberian (a native or inhabitant of Siberia)
Georgian (a native or inhabitant of Georgia in Asia)
Muscovite (a resident of Moscow)
Great Russian (a member of the chief stock of Russian people living in European Russia; used to distinguish ethnic Russians from other peoples incorporated into Russia)
Yeniseian (a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia)
Mansi; Vogul (a member of a nomadic people of the northern Urals)
Veps; Vepse; Vepsian (a member of a Finnish people of Russia)
Samoyed (a Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia)
Ostyak-Samoyed; Selkup (one of the people of mixed Ostyak and Samoyed origin in Siberia)
Nganasan (a member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia)
Mordva; Mordvin; Mordvinian (a member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia)
Khanty; Ostyak (a member of the nomadic Ugrian people living in northwestern Siberia (east of the Urals))
Carelian; Karelian (a member of the Finnish people living in Karelia in northwestern European Russia)
Inger; Ingerman; Ingrian (a member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built)
Cheremis; Cheremiss; Mari (a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia)
Komi (a member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia)
Udmurt; Votyak (a member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia)
Tatar (a member of the Turkic-speaking people living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains (the name has been attributed to many other groups))
Holonyms ("Russian" is a member of...):
Russia; Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic; Soviet Russia (formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia)
II. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language
Example:
Russian dancing
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Pertainym:
Russia (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)
Derivation:
Russia (a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917)
Russia (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)
Context examples:
Then there was a nominal request for his permission for a Russian translation, that country being likewise outside the Berne Convention.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
The Russian telescope will be the most cutting-edge device in operation in Brazil.
(High tech Russian telescope to start operating in Brazil, Agência Brasil)
B mallei is found in contaminated soil, causes Glanders disease in horses, mules, donkeys, and humans, and has been developed and used as a biological weapon by the Germans, Russians and Japanese.
(Burkholderia mallei, NCI Thesaurus)
On October 11, 2019, Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, announced the death of cosmonaut Alexei Leonov.
(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)
Lastly, element number 118, oganesson, is named for a Russian physicist, Yuri Oganessian, team leader from the synthesis of tennessine, element 117.
(IUPAC proposes four new chemical element names, Wikinews)
Precisely. And the man who wrote the note is a German. Do you note the peculiar construction of the sentence—‘This account of you we have from all quarters received.’ A Frenchman or Russian could not have written that. It is the German who is so uncourteous to his verbs.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Soon after the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belts in 1958, American and Russian scientists concluded that the process of cosmic ray albedo neutron decay (CRAND) was likely the source of the high-energy particles trapped in Earth's magnetic field.
(Six-decade-old space mystery solved with shoebox-sized satellite called a CubeSat, National Science Foundation)
For the current study, Büntgen and his collaborators, sampled more than 1100 living and dead mountain pines from the Spanish Pyrenees and 660 Siberian larch samples from the Russian Altai: both high-elevation forest sites that have been undisturbed for thousands of years.
(Amount of carbon stored in forests reduced as climate warms, University of Cambridge)
The group of four geologists from Ural Federal University set out for the Lut desert, or Dasht-e-Lut, in search of evidence of meteorites - similar to the one that crashed to earth in an impressive fireball over the Russian town of Chelyabinsk in 2013.
(Huge Haul of Extraterrestrial Material Recovered from Iranian Desert, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
I saw the Russian, Ivan, who thrust out my father's eyes, lay the lash of his dog-whip upon thee and beat thee like a dog.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
