Sekirov Dictionary

soviet

UK /ˈsəʊvi.ət/US /ˈsoʊvi.ət/

adjective 3
noun 2
forms 6

adjective3

(historical) connected with the communist country made up of Russia and 14 other states from 1922 to 1991
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Supporting or representing the Soviet Union or Sovietism; Sovietist.
- He remained more Soviet than his parents and often accused Gorbachev of having destroyed the Soviet Union on behalf of US intelligence. — 1998
Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).

noun2

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(historical) A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere.
- Kratochvil, Jedlicka, Safar, Kubes and Vasata, who always took an interest in politics, set up a soviet in the last wagon and uncoupled it from the rest of the train in the night. — 2005
A citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

forms

Soviets · soviets · more Soviet · more soviet · most Soviet · most soviet

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