English Explanatory Dictionary

Bolshevik

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917.
  2. A member of the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
noun
  1. Alternative form of Bolshevik.

Pronunciation

/ˈbɒlʃəvɪk/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Bolshevik.wav /ˈboʊlʃəvɪk/ /ˈbɑl-/ /ˈbol-/ /ˈbɔl-/

Word forms

Bolshevik Bolsheviks Bolsheviki

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík), from большинство́ (bolʹšinstvó, “majority”).

Related words

anarcho-Bolshevik Bolshevism Menshevik
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