Russian
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹʌʃ(ə)n/
rhymes: -ʌʃən
Forms: form: more Russian
form: most Russian
form: Ru.
Etymology: From Medieval Latin (11th century) Russiānus, from Russia, a Latinization of the Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ)) + -ānus (“of or pertaining to”). Attested in English (both as a noun and as an adjective) from the 16th century. By surface analysis, Russia + -an. Piecewise doublet of Rossiyan.
Senses: examples: text: So that is the official line: you’re shit, we’re shit, everything’s shit, never try for a better world because it doesn’t exist. That is not only bleak, I think it’s also the working title of every Russian novel ever written.
ref: 2017 February 19, “Putin”, in Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, season 4, episode 2, John Oliver (actor), via HBO:
text: “Revoking PNTR for Russia is going to make it harder for Russia to do business with the United States and doing it in unison with other nations that make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to the Russian economy that’s already suffering very badly from our sanctions,” Biden said.
ref: 2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, in CNN:
synonyms: Muscovite
Rossiyan
Russ
glosses: Of or pertaining to Russia or Russians.
synonyms: Soviet
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Soviet Union.
glosses: Of or pertaining to Rus.
glosses: Of or pertaining to the Russian language.
Derived terms: word: Black Russian
word: Black Russian Terrier
word: Blue Russian
word: dwarf Russian almond
word: Four-Russians
word: Great Russian
word: Little Russian
word: New Russian
word: non-Russian
word: piss like a Russian racehorse
word: Red Russian kale
word: RuSSian
word: Russian almond
word: Russian backgammon
word: Russian bagatelle
word: Russian ball
word: Russian Bank
word: Russian bank
word: Russian Banker
word: Russian bar
word: Russian bath
word: Russian billiards
word: Russian black bread
word: Russian blouse
word: Russian blue
word: Russian Blue
word: Russian blue potato
word: Russian boot
word: Russian braid
word: Russian cedar
word: Russian chess
word: Russian cigarette
word: Russian comfrey
word: Russian copulation
word: Russian crash
word: Russian cubit
word: Russian cypress
word: Russian dandelion
word: Russian deal
word: Russian desman
word: Russian diaper
word: Russian dinner
word: Russian dip
word: Russian doll
word: Russian dressing
word: Russian eagle
word: Russian Easter bread
word: Russian Easter egg
word: Russian egg
word: Russian elm
word: Russian embroidery
word: Russian encephalitis
word: Russian Federation
word: Russian flu
word: Russian formalism
word: Russian Game
word: Russian gauge
word: Russian gold
word: Russian green
word: Russian Hill
word: Russian iron
word: Russianisation
word: Russianise
word: Russianism
word: Russianization
word: Russianize
word: Russian kale
word: Russian knapweed
word: Russian larch
word: Russian longhair
word: Russian Manchooria
word: Russian Manchuria
word: Russian mulberry
word: Russian novel effect
word: Russian olive
word: Russian Orthodox Church
word: Russian oven
word: Russian peasant multiplication
word: Russian pyramid
word: Russian reversal
word: Russian Revolution
word: Russian River
word: Russian roulette
word: Russian sable
word: Russian sage
word: Russian salad
word: Russian scandal
word: Russian Sign Language
word: Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
word: Russian-speaking
word: Russian spring–summer encephalitis
word: Russian steamroller
word: Russian stitch
taxonomic: Acipenser gueldenstaedtii
word: Russian sturgeon
word: Russian swing
word: Russian tea
word: Russian thistle
word: Russian Toy
word: Russian Tsvetnaya Bolonka
word: Russian twist
word: Russian vine
word: Russian violet
word: Russian wheat aphid
word: Russian White House
word: Russian Wolfhound
word: Russian world
word: Russian wormwood
word: Ruzzian
word: Ruᛋᛋian
word: Ukraino-Russian
word: Ukro-Russian
word: White Russian
word: winter white Russian hamster
Related terms: derussify
Russ
Russify
Russo-