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bloodlands

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.23 in modern English

Syllables
blood-lands
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A region comprising modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic states, where the 20th-century regimes of Stalin and Hitler interacted to cause significant suffering and bloodshed.

Etymology

From blood + lands, coined as the title of a book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), by Yale historian Timothy D. Snyder.

Questions

What does bloodlands mean?
A region comprising modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic states, where the 20th-century regimes of Stalin and Hitler interacted to cause significant suffering and bloodshed.
Where does bloodlands come from?
From blood + lands, coined as the title of a book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), by Yale historian Timothy D. Snyder.

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