English Explanatory Dictionary

soviet

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
adj
  1. Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).
  2. Alternative letter-case form of Soviet (pertaining to the Soviet Union)
noun
  1. A citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
  2. Alternative letter-case form of soviet (“workers' council”).
adj
  1. Pertaining to the Soviet Union or its constituent republics.
  2. Supporting or representing the Soviet Union or Sovietism; Sovietist.

Pronunciation

/ˈsəʊvi.ət/ /ˈsɒvi.ət/ /ˈsɒv.jət/ /ˈsoʊvi.ət/ /ˈsoʊvi.ɛt/ en-us-Soviet.ogg LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-soviet.wav /ˈsovi.ət/ /ˈsɔvi.ət/

Word forms

soviet soviets more soviet most soviet

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian сове́т (sovét, “council”), from Old Russian borrowed from Old Church Slavonic съвѣтъ (sŭvětŭ, “advice”). Compounded from съ- (sŭ-) + вѣтъ (větŭ, “agreement”), from Proto-Slavic *větъ (“council, talk”). Related words include наве́т (navét), изве́т (izvét), отве́т (otvét), приве́т (privét), обе́т (obét), ве́че (véče), отвеча́ть (otvečátʹ), отве́тить (otvétitʹ), завеща́ть (zaveščátʹ), and совещаться (soveščatʹsja). Probably cognate with Polish witać (“to welcome”).

Synonyms

sovietic

Related words

Soviet republic Supreme Soviet syndicate

Derived words

anti-Soviet nonsoviet Moldavian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic pan-post-Soviet pan-Soviet post-Soviet pre-Soviet Sovietdom Sovietesque Sovietisation Sovietise Sovietization Sovietize Sovietness Sovietology Sovietophile Sovietophilia Sovietwave

Translations

Albanian: sovjetik Arabic: سُوفْيِتِيّ Arabic: سُوفْيِيتِيّ Arabic: سُوفْيَاتِيّ Armenian: սովետական Azerbaijani: sovet Bashkir: совет Belarusian: саве́цкі Bengali: সোভিয়েত Bulgarian: съве́тски Burmese: ဆိုဗီယက် Catalan: soviètic Chinese Mandarin: 蘇維埃 /苏维埃 Chinese Mandarin: 蘇聯的 /苏联的 Czech: sovětský Danish: sovjetisk Dutch: Sovjet- Esperanto: soveta Esperanto: sovetia Estonian: nõukogude Farefare: soviet Finnish: neuvostoliittolainen Finnish: Neuvostoliiton French: soviétique Galician: soviético Georgian: საბჭოთა German: sowjetisch German: Sowjet- Greek: σοβιετικός Hebrew: סובייטי Hindi: सोवियत Hungarian: szovjet Ingrian: sovetskoi Italian: sovietico Japanese: ソ連の Japanese: ソビエトの Japanese: ソヴェトの Kazakh: кеңестік Kazakh: кеңес Kazakh: советтік Kazakh: совет Khmer: សូវៀត Korean: 소비에트 Kyrgyz: советтик Kyrgyz: совет Lao: ໂຊວຽດ Latin: sovieticus Latvian: padomju- Macedonian: со́ветски Maltese: Sovjetiku Manx: Soveidjagh Mongolian: зөвлөлт
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