Definition of Tolstoy

1. Noun. Russian author remembered for two great novels (1828-1910).

Exact synonyms: Count Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tolstoy

Tolectin
Toledo
Tolinase
Tolkien
Tolkienesque
Tolkienian
Tolkienite
Tolkienites
Toll House cookie
Tollywood
Tolmiea
Tolmiea menziesii
Tolomako
Tolosa
Tolosa-Hunt syndrome
Tolstoy (current term)
Tolstoyan
Toltec
Toltecs
Tolu balsam
Toluca
Tolyatti
Tolypeutes
Tolypeutes tricinctus
Tom Bradley
Tom Collins
Tom Collinses

Literary usage of Tolstoy

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

1. Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature by H.W. Wilson Company (1911)
"Allan. 107: 279-82. F. 41. Sff aleo Liberty of conscience. Tolstoy ... How to spell Tolstoy. A. Maude. Nation. 92: man lay down his life for his friends. ..."

2. Authors and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1921)
"Tolstoy I" WAS reading in a club when I heard a man -*. say, "I'm going to write a play round Tolstoy." The name of Tolstoy aroused so many memories that I ..."

3. Authors and I by Charles Lewis Hind (1920)
"Tolstoy | WAS reading in a club when I heard a man -*- say, "I'm going to write a play round Tolstoy." The name of Tolstoy aroused so many memories that I ..."

4. The Bookman (1905)
"Tolstoy. "No one should stop him. No one has the right to interfere with the ... "Do you believe in courts of ar- Tolstoy. "Courts of arbitration are so ..."

5. Fur Seal Arbitration: Proceedings of the Tribunal of Arbitration, Convened by Bering Sea Tribunal of Arbitration (1895)
"Halfway Point 14. Southwest and English Bay 15. Tolstoy and ... Southwest Hay and Tolstoy 12. Reef 13. Southwest and English Bays 14. ..."

6. American Literary Criticism, Selected and Ed.: With an Introductory Essay by William Morton Payne (1904)
"Tolstoy awakens in his reader the will to be a man; not effectively, ... I learned from Tolstoy to try character and motive by no other test, ..."

7. American Literary Criticism, Selected and Ed.: With an Introductory Essay by William Morton Payne (1904)
"Tolstoy awakens in his reader the will to be a man ; not effectively, ... I learned from Tolstoy to try character and motive by no other test, ..."

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