russia
IPA: rˈʌʃʌ
Root Word: Russia
noun
- The largest country in the world, 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.
- (historical, loosely) 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).
- (historical) The Russian Empire; the tsarist empire in Russia lasting from 1721 to 1917.
- (historical, dated) Kievan Rus; the medieval East Slavic state centered in Kiev.
- (dated, countable) Any of several East Slavic states descended from Kievan Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia).
- Short for Russia leather. [A form of bark-tanned cow leather, made hard-wearing, flexible, and waterproof with the use of birch oil.]
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Examples of "russia" in Sentences
- Can Russia break the malediction
- Russia opposed and the rest abstained.
- But Russia's reaction was the ukase of 1821.
- I saw it in the nihilist movement in Russia.
- Russia was sort of like a feudalistic society.
- The provisional government keeps Russia in the war.
- Another purpose was to reconnoiter expanding Russia.
- Most of the nuclear stockpile was inherited by Russia.
- The composition of surrogate alcohols consumed in Russia.
- The Chairman of the State Council is the President of Russia.