# soviet

Pronunciation: say "SOH-vee-uht" US /ˈsoʊvi.ət/, UK /ˈsəʊvi.ət/

## Adjective · Soviet

1. Relating to the Soviet Union or to the republics that made it up.
   - Simple: Having to do with the Soviet Union or the republics that were part of it.
   - _Soviet troops withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989._
   - _Several Soviet republics declared independence in 1990 and 1991._
4. Supporting the Soviet Union and Sovietism, or representing their values and outlook.
   - Simple: Loyal to the Soviet Union and its ideas, or showing its values and way of thinking.
   - _The young officer tried to seem more Soviet than his commanders, quoting Lenin at every meeting._
   - _Decades after the collapse, the old general remained thoroughly Soviet in his habits and loyalties._

## Noun · Soviet

2. A person holding citizenship of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
   - Simple: A citizen of the Soviet Union.
   - _He was the first Soviet the young journalist had ever interviewed._
   - _Tens of millions of Soviets died in the Second World War._

## Noun

3. A workers' council, born in Russia's 1905 revolution and later the main form of communist government at all levels of the Soviet Union; also similar bodies elsewhere, as in early Chinese communism.
   - Simple: A council of workers, like those that governed the Soviet Union and some other communist places.
   - _During the 1905 revolution, striking workers in St. Petersburg formed a soviet to coordinate their demands._
   - _Communist organizers set up rural soviets in the hill counties of Jiangxi._

## Adjective

5. Relating to or resembling a workers' council, or soviet.
   - Simple: Having to do with a workers' council, or being like one.
   - _Anarchists and socialists argued over whether soviet democracy could survive without a party in charge._
   - _In 1919 revolutionaries in Munich proclaimed a short-lived soviet republic._

## Origin

**Meanings 1–2, 4** — From Russian сове́т (sovét).
**Meanings 3, 5** — Borrowed from Russian sovét ("council"), from Old Church Slavonic sŭvětŭ ("advice"), formed from the prefix sŭ- + větŭ ("agreement").

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/soviet (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).