white russian
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.89 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Of or relating to Russians with tsarist or anti-Soviet sympathies in the period directly following the Revolution in 1917.
noun
A White Guardist, a Russian who did not support the Socialists in the Revolution in 1917 and the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and afterwards (e.g. as a White émigré).
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Alternative letter-case form of White Russian (“cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk”).
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Alternative letter-case form of White Russian (“a cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk”).
Example Sentences
- "The overseer of the clinic was a White Russian woman, a nun, formerly of the Russian Orthodox community in Jerusalem, but a good-hearted woman. In these cases, we should not be too scrupulous politically, said the priest."
- "Few cocktails include milk and cream, so the White Russian is a welcome departure from the norm. Already a popular drink in its own right, the White Russian was made famous by Jeff Bridges’ character in “The Big Lebowski.”"
- "The White Guard colony in Harbin is armed and organized along military lines. At the head of this army of counter-revolution—the shock troops of Japanese imperialism—stands the notorious tsarist bandit, "Ataman" Semionov."
- "(Thus Engels expected Austria-Hungary to swallow up the small Balkan countries; Poland, as a historical nation, should, he thought, be restored and include in its dominion the less developed peoples to the east-Lithuanians, White Russians, and Ukrainians.)"