Brezhnevite
Brezhnevite noun: a supporter of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906–1982), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982.
Noun
Brezhnevite (plural Brezhnevites)
- A supporter of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906–1982), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982.
Adjective
Brezhnevite (comparative more Brezhnevite, superlative most Brezhnevite)
- Of or relating to Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev or his policies.
- When the promised state of affairs failed to materialize, the specifically communist claim of authority was rendered void, and it was clumsily and awkwardly replaced by Brezhnevite borborygms of the status quo.2002, G[áspár] M[iklós] Tamás, “Victory Defeated”, in Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, editors, Democracy after Communism (A Journal of Democracy Book), Baltimore, Md.; London: The Johns Hopkins...
Forms of Brezhnevite
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | Brezhnevites |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more Brezhnevite |
| superlative | most Brezhnevite |
Origin of Brezhnevite
From Brezhnev + -ite.
Questions about Brezhnevite
- What does Brezhnevite mean?
- Brezhnevite means a supporter of Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev (1906–1982), General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1964 to 1982.
- What part of speech is Brezhnevite?
- Brezhnevite can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of Brezhnevite?
- The plural of Brezhnevite is Brezhnevites.
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