Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

great purge

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.57 in modern English

Syllables: great purge
IPA

14

Scrabble Score

10

Letters

1

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A campaign of extensive political purge and repression from 1936 to 1938, led by Joseph Stalin and executed by the NKVD to purge his political opponents.

Inflected Forms

the Great Purge (canonical)

Synonyms

Great Terror Yezhovshchina Yezhov Era

Questions

What does great purge mean?: A campaign of extensive political purge and repression from 1936 to 1938, led by Joseph Stalin and executed by the NKVD to purge his political opponents.

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