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Definition of Moscow

1. Noun. A city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation.

Definition of Moscow

1. Proper noun. The capital city of Russia. ¹

2. Proper noun. (context: by extension) The government of Russia or the Soviet Union ¹

3. Proper noun. A city in Idaho, USA ¹

4. Proper noun. A town name in Iowa, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Pensylvania, etc. in the USA ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moscow

Literary usage of Moscow

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

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"But Moscow never regained its earlier pre-eminence, although it became a wealthy ... In 1700 he abolished the Patriarchate of Moscow, left the see vacant, ..."

2. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy (1904)
"This event—the abandonment and burning of Moscow— was, after the battle of ... And a sense of this, and more, a foreboding that Moscow would be taken by the ..."

3. The Works of Tennyson by Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Hallam Tennyson Tennyson (1908)
"But for a State centred at Moscow endless expansion, ultimately into northern ... But at Moscow circumstances imposed a military organisation which fostered ..."

4. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1908)
"But for a State centred at Moscow endless expansion, ultimately into northern ... But at Moscow circumstances imposed a military organisation which fostered ..."

5. The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells (1920)
"What a splendid excursion to Moscow! Four hundred thousand men and more Must go with him to Moscow: There were Marshals by the dozen, And Dukes by the score ..."

6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"(called the Great by some Russian historians) that the prince of Moscow ... It vas about this time, when the wealth of Moscow was rapidly increasing by the ..."

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