tolstoevsky
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
The Russian novelists Leo Tolstoy and Fyodor Dostoevsky; their respective oeuvres considered as a single corpus
Informal
Example Sentences
- "The obvious effect is to create courses by popular demand, the most obvious being the Tolstoevsky combination: one semester Dostoevsky, the other, Tolstoy."
- "But how Tolstoy felt about Dostoevsky is of less importance to the present chapter – which is not a study in Tolstoevsky – than what is revealed by how he managed those feelings."
- "But, if Terra (be it our world, its portrayal in the novels of "Tolstoevsky," or the "Terrible World" of Blok) actually exists, why not also to assume that water has a language?"
- "For all the attention that America's most important critics lavished on “Tolstoevsky,” Slavic experts were all but ignored."