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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.

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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