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twenty-five-thousander

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
twen-ty--five-t-hou-sander
IPA
36
Scrabble Score
20
Letters
7
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

One of the approximately 25,000 industrial workers who voluntarily left their homes to do rural work in the kolkhozes in the USSR in the early 1930s.

Etymology

From twenty-five thousand + -er, a calque of Russian двадцатипятитысячники (dvadcatipjatitysjačniki).

Inflected Forms

twenty-five-thousanders (plural)

Questions

What does twenty-five-thousander mean?
One of the approximately 25,000 industrial workers who voluntarily left their homes to do rural work in the kolkhozes in the USSR in the early 1930s.
Where does twenty-five-thousander come from?
From twenty-five thousand + -er, a calque of Russian двадцатипятитысячники (dvadcatipjatitysjačniki).

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