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russia
/ˈɹʌʃə/
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What does russia mean?
noun
- Ellipsis of Russia leather.
proper noun
- 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.
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proper noun
- (historical) 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.
- (dated, historical) Kievan Rus; the medieval East Slavic state centered in Kiev.
- (dated) Any of several East Slavic states descended from Kievan Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia).
- (derogatory, humorous, offensive, slang) Russia.
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IPA pronunciation
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“To enter Russia without declaring war! I will not make peace as long as a single armed enemy remains in my country!”
We have no favourable events, but that Russia, who had neither men, money, nor magazines, is much softened, and halts her troops.
More book examples (3)
Judging from what I saw of the Russian workmen in this instance, I should say that Russia has a grand future before it.
The beginning of the twentieth century would have been spared the spectacle of sanguinary warfare if Russia had condescended to know Japan better.
At the present time only Russia and Turkey seem to have popular sympathy for dwarfs, and this in a limited degree.