English Explanatory Dictionary

Westernizer

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A member of a group of 19th-century intellectuals who believed that Russia's development depended upon the adoption of Western European technology and liberal government.

Word forms

Westernizer Westernizers

Etymology

From westernize + -er.

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