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Byelorussia

/ˌbjɛləˈɹʌʃə/

Byelorussia proper noun: belarus.

Proper noun

Byelorussia

  1. (historical) Belarus
    • In Byelorussia, Stalin not only killed 100,000 people in purges and repression in the 1930s but also doomed 1.5 million people and 75 percent of the republic's cities and towns to death and destruction through his half-witted military strategies in World War II.1992, Richard Nixon, “The Former Evil Empire”, in Seize the Moment, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 57

Origin of Byelorussia

Borrowed from Russian Белоруссия (Belorussija).

Words formed from Byelorussia

Questions about Byelorussia

What does Byelorussia mean?
Byelorussia means belarus.
What part of speech is Byelorussia?
Byelorussia is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Byelorussia?
Byelorussia is pronounced /ˌbjɛləˈɹʌʃə/.

Words near Byelorussia in the dictionary

  1. byelaws
  2. byelection
  3. byelections
  4. byeline
  5. byelines
  6. Byelorussia
  7. Byelorussian
  8. Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic
  9. Byelorussian SSR
  10. Byelorussians
  11. byemby

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