voskresnik
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A Sunday designated for community volunteer work, such as cleaning the streets, after the October Revolution in Russia.
noun
Alternative letter-case form of voskresnik.
Example Sentences
- "It is necessary to use such forms of sponsorship help as subbotniki and voskresniki [work without pay donated to the state on weekends], more intensively and rationally."
- "The activities of the committees also include the organization of unpaid work days (subbotniki and voskresniki) to build and repair schools, health care institutions, roads and other communal facilities."
- "In the Soviet era it was common for working people to be sent on voluntary work sessions on Saturday and Sunday (subbotniki and voskresniki) to carry out community work."
- "It was young boys and girls in their teens, through their vast organization, the Komsomol, who initiated the movement of the Voskresniki, or voluntary Sunday workers, which was tried out for the first time on Sunday, August 16, 1941."
- "During World War II, the KS and voskresniki (Sunday volunteers) are said to have inspired the war effort."
- "In one way and another, the people were now looking forward to a better future, to a renaissance of their city. They had earned it. It was this euphoria that brought the voskresniks in their thousands to help clear the parks and sort through the rubble, and which brought the crowds into the streets to cheer Samson on his way."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: воскре́сник, воскресе́нье