Bolshevik

Meaning

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

Frequency

25k
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈbɒlʃəvɪk/
Etymology

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

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