soviet
//ˈsəʊvi.ət//
Forms
- Plural
- soviets
- Comparative
- more soviet
- Superlative
- most soviet
Definitions
1.A citizen of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
- Communism was the political system in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but that stopped in 1993.
2.Alternative letter-case form of soviet (“workers' council”).
- Communism was the political system in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, but that stopped in 1993.
1.Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).
2.Alternative letter-case form of Soviet (pertaining to the Soviet Union)
- An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero.
- Lobashev was of completely proletarian origin. He was a very soviet person.
- The Soviet government is not very soviet anymore or, for that matter, much of a government.
3.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.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1879
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Uncommon
- Literature
- Rare
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”).