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Definition of Great Russian
1. Noun. A member of the chief stock of Russian people living in European Russia; used to distinguish ethnic Russians from other peoples incorporated into Russia.
Definition of Great Russian
1. Proper noun. (obsolete) the Russian language, when considered to be mutually intelligible with the Ukrainian ("Little Russian") and Belarusian ("White Russian") languages. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Russian
Literary usage of Great Russian
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Treaty of Peace with Germany by Germany (1918- ), Germany (1918- ) Treaties, etc. 1918-, Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920), United States Congress Senate, Germany, etc. 1918 Treaties, June 28 Treaty with Germany, 1919 (1919)
"In this way the growth of culture and education culminated in a natural displacing
of the written Ukrainian language by the Great Russian language. ..."
2. Treaty of Peace with Germany by Germany (1918- ), Germany (1918- ) Treaties, etc. 1918-, Allied and Associated Powers (1914-1920), United States Congress Senate, Germany, etc. 1918 Treaties, June 28 Treaty with Germany, 1919 (1919)
"And, of course, the living Great Russian idiom, as it is spoken by the people of
... "But do we possess perhaps, some ground to consider our (Great Russian) ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"Still it does not differ much from the modern Russian or the so-called Great
Russian language; it bears somewhat the same relation to the latter as the ..."
4. Impressions of Russia by Georg Morris Cohen Brandes (1889)
"Little-Russian and Great-Russian popular ballads, each written in its own dialect,
sung by widely different people, belong, in fact, to two different ..."
5. The Story of the Great War by Francis Joseph Reynolds, Allen Leon Churchill, Leonard Wood, Francis Trevelyan Miller, Austin Melvin Knight, Frederick Palmer, Frank Herbert Simonds, Arthur Brown Ruhl (1916)
"CHAPTER XX THE Great Russian OFFENSIVE DURING the first two days of June, 1916,
a lull occurred at almost all important points of the eastern front. ..."
6. The Historians' History of the World: A Comprehensive Narrative of the Rise by Henry Smith Williams (1904)
"This is an error; since the Great Russian, the product of the colonisation of
central Russia by the western Russians before the invasion of the Tatars ..."
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