Definition of Lermontov

1. Noun. Russian writer (1814-1841).

Exact synonyms: Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov
Generic synonyms: Author, Writer

Definition of Lermontov

1. Proper noun. A town in Russia ¹

2. Proper noun. (surname transliteration of a Russian from=Russian) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Lermontov

Leptotyphlops humilis
Lepus
Lepus americanus
Lepus arcticus
Lepus californicus
Lepus europaeus
Lepus townsendi
Ler
Leri
Leri's pleonosteosis
Leri's sign
Leri-Weill disease
Leri-Weill syndrome
Leriche
Leriche's operation
Lermontov (current term)
Lermoyez
Lermoyez' syndrome
Lerner
Lerner homeostasis
Leroi
Leroy
Leroy Robert Paige
Lerwick
Lesath
Lesbonian
Lesbos
Lesbœufs

Literary usage of Lermontov

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

1. Modern Russian Poetry: An Anthology by Babette Deutsch, Avrahm Yarmolinsky (1921)
"Spared by the bullets of the mountaineers, Lermontov was killed in a duel with an outraged colleague, only a year older at his death than was John Keats. ..."

2. The Warner Library by Charles Dudley Warner, Harry Morgan Ayres, John William Cunliffe, Helen Rex Keller, Gerhard Richard Lomer (1917)
"... YUREVICH Lermontov) i TTHE giant cliff's wide bosom straying Came a golden cloud, and soon was sleeping In the early dawn it woke, and leaping, ..."

3. Poetry and Progress in Russia by Rosa Harriet Jeaffreson Newmarch (1907)
"Lermontov f| "^HOSE "watchers of the skies" who I scanned the literary horizon ... Compounded of all fiery and inflammable elements, Lermontov may be fitly ..."

4. Literary History of Russia by Aleksander Brückner, Ellis H. Minns (1908)
"... —Lermontov, his youth, and outside influences—Social themes—Pessimism—Poetical Romances—Dramas—His position—Koltsov and the Folk-song. ..."

5. A History of Russian Literature by Kazimierz Waliszewski (1900)
"CHAPTER VIII Lermontov, GOGOL, AND TOURGUENIEV LAST winter, in the Parisian drawing-room of a great Russian lady, I was present at the reading of a French ..."

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