Speakur

Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

white army

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.93 in modern English

Syllables
white army
IPA
20
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
1
Syllables
9
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

a collation of anti-Bolshevik armed groups that fought the Red Army during the Russian Civil War

Etymology

Calque of Russian Белая армия (Belaja armija). White was the traditional color of the antirevolutionary movement in some countries, adopted as a symbolic name by the Russian movement.

Inflected Forms

the White Army (canonical)

Phrases

White Terror

Frequently Paired Words

White Terror Red Army green army

Questions

What does white army mean?
a collation of anti-Bolshevik armed groups that fought the Red Army during the Russian Civil War
Where does white army come from?
Calque of Russian Белая армия (Belaja armija). White was the traditional color of the antirevolutionary movement in some countries, adopted as a symbolic name by the Russian movement.

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