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Definition of Cheremis
1. Noun. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.
Group relationships: Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia
Generic synonyms: Russian
2. Noun. The Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheremis
Literary usage of Cheremis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1890)
"But these instances hardly explain marriage with capture. Georgi (Descrip., i,
71) describes the capture of girls among the cheremis and ..."
2. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1890)
"But these instances hardly explain marriage with capture. Georgi {Descrip., \,
71) describes the capture of girls among the cheremis and ..."
3. 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)
"... Hungarian, as well as Lappish, Finnish, cheremis, Mordvin, and Samojed, belongs
to the Ural group of languages, and further, together with Turkish and ..."
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