Definition of Gorki

1. Noun. Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories; noted for his depiction of social outcasts.


2. Noun. An industrial city in the European part of Russia; birthplace of Maksim Gorky.
Exact synonyms: Gorkiy, Gorky, Nizhni Novgorod, Nizhnyi Novgorod
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center
Group relationships: Russia, Russian Federation

Definition of Gorki

1. Proper noun. a city in Belarus ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gorki

Gorevan
Goreyesque
Gorgas
Gorgias
Gorgio
Gorgios
Gorgonean
Gorgonocephalus
Gorham's disease
Goriaew's rule
Gorilla gorilla beringei
Gorilla gorilla gorilla
Gorilla gorilla grauri
Goring
Gorizia
Gorki (current term)
Gorkiy
Gorky
Gorlin's sign
Gorlin's syndrome
Gorlin's syndromes
Gorlin cyst
Gorlin formula
Gorman's syndrome
Gormenghastian
Gorno-Altaysk
Gorontalo
Gorsuch
Gosainthan

Literary usage of Gorki

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Drama and Opera: Reading Lists on the Works of Various Authors by Clara A. Mulliken Norton, Frank Keller Walter, Fanny Elsie Marquand, Archibald Henderson (1915)
"It was from his life among these outcasts of society that Gorki drew the ... Gorki, Maxim. Children of the sun; tr. from the Russian by Archibald John Wolfe ..."

2. Russian Short Stories, Ed. for School Use by Harry Christian Schweikert (1919)
"He writes under the pen name of MAXIM Gorki—gorki in Russian meaning bitter. ... It happened that the cook was a lover of books and from him Gorki learned ..."

3. The Drama and the Stage by Ludwig Lewisohn (1922)
"Gorki and Arthur Hopkins WHENEVER the characters of tragedy dwell in their ... Gorki might have written another play about the same people and have shifted ..."

4. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl (1899)
"BY MAKSIM Gorki. (Translated for this work by Professor Leo Wiener of Harvard ... [Gorki is an erratic and wandering but very powerful writer who has ..."

5. The Masterpieces of Modern Drama ...: Abridged in Narrative with Dialogue of by John Alexander Pierce, Brander Matthews (1915)
"... THE SUBMERGED* BY MAXIM Gorki In "The Submerged" Gorki pictures the dregs of humanity gathered in a lodging-house of the poorest sort, men and women who ..."

6. The Masterpieces of Modern Drama ...: Abridged in Narrative with Dialogue of by Brander Matthews (1915)
"... THE SUBMERGED* BY MAXIM Gorki In "The Submerged" Gorki pictures the dregs of humanity gathered in a lodging-house of the poorest sort, men and women who ..."

7. The Arena by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1907)
"By MAXIM Gorki. THE KINGS of steel, of petroleum, and all the other kings of the United States have always in a high degree excited my power of imagination. ..."

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