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Russia

RUSH-uh/ˈɹʌʃə/

6 meanings of Russia

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  1. 1
    modern countryproper nouncountable or uncountable
    A large country that stretches across Eastern Europe and northern Asia, with Moscow as its capital.

    Russia is the largest country in the world by land area.

    Millions of people visit Russia every year to see its cities and landscapes.

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  2. 2
    tsarist empireproper nounhistoricalcountable or uncountable
    The country ruled by the tsars, from 1547 until the revolution of 1917.

    Russia was ruled by powerful tsars for more than three hundred years.

    Ukraine (“frontier”), the name formerly given to a district of European Russia, now comprising the governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava.
    1911, “Ukraine”, in 1911 Encyclopædia BritannicaHere, Russia means the empire ruled by the tsars.
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    Soviet Unionproper nounhistoricalcountable or uncountable
    A common name for the Soviet Union, the large communist state that existed from 1922 to 1991.

    Russia and America did not trust each other during the Cold War.

    Russia sent the first dog and the first man into space.

    SimilarUSSR

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Less common meanings

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    East Slavic landsproper noundatedcountable
    Any one of the East Slavic lands that grew out of old Kiev, such as Russia, Belarus, or Ukraine.

    Old books sometimes spoke of three Russias spread across the Slavic east.

    Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias — the empire over self.
    1842, George Eliot, Selections from George Eliot's lettersHere, Russias means the East Slavic lands, such as Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine.
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  2. 5
    medieval Kievproper noundatedhistoricalcountable or uncountable
    An early Slavic state from the Middle Ages, centered on the city of Kiev.

    SimilarRus

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  3. 6
    leathernouncountable or uncountableabbreviationellipsis
    Short for Russia leather: a tough, bark-tanned leather with a rich smell from birch oil, once popular for binding books.
    Dull Russias will prove a good selling line for women according to the predictions of certain manufacturers.
    1914, Shoe and Leather Journal
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Origin

English took the name in the 1390s from Medieval Latin Russia, based on Old East Slavic Rusĭ. Rusĭ first meant a group of Varangians who settled near Kiev and ruled Kievan Rus in the 9th century.