soviets
SaySOH-vee-uhtsUS/ˈsoʊvi.əts/UK/ˈsəʊvi.əts/
- 1Plural of soviet.
Councils of workers and soldiers, the local soviets, sprang up across Russia in 1917.
In theory, authority flowed upward from the village soviets to a national congress.
Note
Letter case does much of the work in this plural. Lowercase soviets are usually workers' councils, from the first ones of the 1905 Russian Revolution to the governing councils of the Soviet Union. Capitalized, Soviets more often means citizens of the Soviet Union, though either case turns up for either meaning, so the context is the surer guide.
soviets is a form of soviet
soviet, noun: A person holding citizenship of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Full entry
- Forms
- sovietsoviets plural, plural
- Spelling
- soviet → soviets: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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