russia
/ˈɹʌʃə/
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.93 in modern English
Meaning
name
A transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Official name: Russian Federation. Capital and largest city: Moscow. It borders the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas. Part of the Soviet Union from 1917 through 1991.
Countable; Uncountable
name
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR).
Countable; Uncountable
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The Russian Empire; the tsarist empire in Russia lasting from 1721 to 1917.
Countable; Uncountable
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Any of several East Slavic states descended from Kievan Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia).
Countable; Dated
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Russia.
Derogatory; Humorous; Offensive; Slang
Example Sentences
- "The next stop that we make will be England / Tell all the folks in Russia, and China, too / Don't you know that it's time to get on board? / And let this train keep on riding, riding on through"
- "“Revoking PNTR for Russia is going to make it harder for Russia to do business with the United States and doing it in unison with other nations that make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to the Russian economy that’s already suffering very badly from our sanctions,” Biden said."
- "Russia is unable to honor its arms delivery commitments to India because of the war in Ukraine, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said, placing a potential strain on New Delhi’s relationship with its largest defense supplier as Moscow attempts to ramp up weapons production."
- "Ukraine (“frontier”), the name formerly given to a district of European Russia, now comprising the governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava."
- "Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias — the empire over self."
- "Then there is White Russia and Red Russia, Great Russia and Little Russia, Russia of the Frozen North and Russia of the Far East — a Russia equally dangerous to every one of her neighbours […]"
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Russia, Русь, *roocci, *roþs-, Roþrslandi, róðr
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈɹʌʃə/
- British English: /ˈɹʌʃə/