russian

Adjective
  1. Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language (synset 302968822)
    "Russian dancing"
Noun
  1. A native or inhabitant of Russia (synset 109747745)
    is a type of: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene, native - an indigenous person who was born in a particular place
    subtypes:
    • tatar - a member of the Turkic-speaking people living from the Volga to the Ural Mountains (the name has been attributed to many other groups)
    • udmurt, votyak - a member of the Finno-Ugric-speaking people living in eastern European Russia
    • komi - a member of a Finnish people living in the northwestern Urals in Russia
    • cheremis, cheremiss, mari - a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia
    • inger, ingerman, ingrian - a member of western Finnish people formerly living in the Baltic province where Saint Petersburg was built
    • carelian, karelian - a member of the Finnish people living in Karelia in northwestern European Russia
    • khanty, ostyak - a member of the nomadic Ugrian people living in northwestern Siberia (east of the Urals)
    • mordva, mordvin, mordvinian - a member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia
    • nganasan - a member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia
    • ostyak-samoyed, selkup - one of the people of mixed Ostyak and Samoyed origin in Siberia
    • samoyed - a Samoyedic-speaking person in northwestern Siberia
    • veps, vepse, vepsian - a member of a Finnish people of Russia
    • mansi, vogul - a member of a nomadic people of the northern Urals
    • yeniseian - a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia
    • great russian - a member of the chief stock of Russian people living in European Russia; used to distinguish ethnic Russians from other peoples incorporated into Russia
    • muscovite - a resident of Moscow
    • georgian - a native or inhabitant of Georgia in Asia
    • siberian - a native or inhabitant of Siberia
    • chechen - a native or inhabitant of Chechnya
    belongs to: russia, russian soviet federated socialist republic, soviet russia - formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
  2. The Slavic language that is the official language of Russia (synset 106957110)
    domain region: russia, soviet union, union of soviet socialist republics, ussr - a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991
    is a type of: slavic, slavic language, slavonic, slavonic language - a branch of the Indo-European family of languages

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