kulak
/ˈkulæk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.93 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "The “internal organs,” as the CHEKA and the GPU and the KGB used to style themselves, were asked to police the mind for heresy as much as to torture kulaks to relinquish the food they withheld from the cities."
- "We are the “upper middle class”, the new kulaks whose antisocial self-interest and lack of submission to the aims of the revolutionary vanguard must be extinguished."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: кула́к
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈkulæk/
- British English: /ˈkuːlak/
Inflected Forms
Derived Forms
dekulakisation
dekulakization
dekulakise
dekulakize
kulakdom
kulakisation
kulakization
kulakism
kulakize
kulakise
subkulak
Phrases
anarcho-kulak
de-kulakisation
de-kulakization
de-kulakise
de-kulakize
self-dekulakisation
self-dekulakization