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Definition of Russia
1. Noun. A former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991.
Geographical relationships: February Revolution, Russian Revolution, October Revolution, Russian Revolution, Russian, Razbliuto, Pirogi, Piroshki, Pirozhki, Kvass, Kolkhoz, Steppe, Tovarich, Tovarisch, Isaac Stern, Stern, Balagan, Svoboda
Generic synonyms: Country, Land, State
Terms within: Soviet Socialist Republic, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia, Caspian, Caspian Sea
Group relationships: Eurasia
2. Noun. Formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia.
Geographical relationships: Borodino
Group relationships: Soviet Union, Union Of Soviet Socialist Republics, Ussr, Eurasia
Generic synonyms: Soviet Socialist Republic
Member holonyms: Komi, Cheremis, Cheremiss, Mari, Inger, Ingerman, Ingrian, Mordva, Mordvin, Mordvinian, Veps, Vepse, Vepsian, Mansi, Vogul, Russian
3. Noun. A former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917.
Terms within: Muscovy
Group relationships: Eurasia
Geographical relationships: Czar, Tsar, Tzar, Aleksandr Pavlovich, Alexander I, Czar Alexander I, Alexander Ii, Alexander The Liberator, Czar Alexander Ii, Alexander Iii, Czar Alexander Iii, Czar Nicholas I, Nicholas I
Derivative terms: Russian
4. Noun. A federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state.
Group relationships: Cis, Commonwealth Of Independent States
Geographical relationships: Foreign Intelligence Service, Sluzhba Vneshney Razvedki, Svr
Generic synonyms: Country, Land, State
Terms within: Karelia, Capital Of The Russian Federation, Moscow, Russian Capital, Astrakhan, Cherepovets, Chechen Republic, Chechenia, Chechnya, Grozny, Groznyy, Kaluga, Khabarovsk, Kursk, Siberia, European Russia, Gorki, Gorkiy, Gorky, Nizhni Novgorod, Nizhnyi Novgorod, Kazan, Leningrad, Peterburg, Petrograd, Saint Petersburg, St. Petersburg, Murmansk, Nalchik, Novgorod, Molotov, Perm, Rostov, Rostov Na Donu, Rostov On Don, Saratov, Smolensk, Ufa, Stalingrad, Tsaritsyn, Volgograd, Novosibirsk, Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Vladivostok, Nova Zembla, Novaya Zemlya, Kola Peninsula, Amur, Amur River, Heilong, Heilong Jiang, Dnieper, Dnieper River, Don, Don River, Ilmen, Lake Ilmen, Ladoga, Lake Ladoga, Lake Onega, Onega, Neva, Neva River, Tien Shan, Tyan Shan, Ural Mountains, Urals, Vetluga, Vetluga River, Volga, Volga River, Volkhov, Volkhov River
Specialized synonyms: Asian Russia
Group relationships: Eurasia
Derivative terms: Russian
Definition of Russia
1. n. A country of Europe and Asia.
Definition of Russia
1. Proper noun. A country in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. The Country extends from the Gulf of Finland to the Pacific Ocean, and was part of the USSR from 1922 to 1991. Co-official name - ''Russian Federation,'' formerly the ''Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic'' (RSFSR), Capital and largest city ''Moscow'' ¹
2. Proper noun. (historical informal) The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR). ¹
3. Proper noun. (historical) The Russian Empire. ¹
4. Proper noun. (historical dated) Rus, the medieval East Slavic state. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Russia
1. Russian leather [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Russia
Literary usage of Russia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transcaucasia and Ararat: Being Notes of a Vacation Tour in the Autumn of 1876 by James Bryce Bryce (1896)
"South-eastern Russia is hardly visited at all. Nijni Novgorod, whose great fair
draws some few sightseers as well as men of business from Germany and the ..."
2. Transcaucasia and Ararat: Being Notes of a Vacation Tour in the Autumn of 1876 by James Bryce Bryce (1878)
"CHAPTER I. THE VOLGA AND THE STEPPE OF SOUTHERN Russia. NORTH-WESTERN Russia,
although it is now pretty easy of access from Western Europe, and contains two ..."
3. Russian Political Institutions: The Growth and Development of These by Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevskiĭ (1902)
"Let us inquire as to the chief sources of information concerning the people that
once inhabited Russia. A traveler coming from the western shore of the ..."
4. Russian Political Institutions: The Growth and Development of These by Maksim Maksimovich Kovalevskiĭ (1902)
"Let us inquire as to the chief sources of information concerning the people that
once inhabited Russia. A traveler coming from the western shore of the ..."
5. Entente Diplomacy and the World: Matrix of the History of Europe, 1909-14 by Benno Aleksandrovīch fon- Zībert, George Abel Schreiner (1921)
"The United States found it necessary to safeguard its commercial interests in
the Far East against persistent encroachment on the part of Russia and Japan. ..."
6. A History of Greece: From Its Conquest by the Romans to the Present Time, B by George Finlay (1877)
"Conduct of Russia.—Conduct of Great Britain.—Congress of Verona.—Russian memoir
on the pacification of Greece in.—Effect of this memoir. ..."
7. Peace Problems: Russia's Economics by N. Nordman (1919)
"On the" outbreak of the war, Russia was one of the greatest states in the world.
... But exclusive of the Colonies, Russia was almost seventy times larger ..."
8. The Path of the Modern Russian Stage: And Other Essays by Alexander Bakshy (1916)
"Russia," he has said with an air ... of the problem to his complete satisfaction, "
Russia is properly a country of the East—the remote, intangible East, ..."
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