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Gogolian

Gogolian adjective: of or relating to the Russian-Empire writer Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) or his works.

Adjective

Gogolian (comparative more Gogolian, superlative most Gogolian)

  1. Of or relating to the Russian-Empire writer Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) or his works.
    • Tchernuishevski presented and criticised John Stuart Mill's “Political Economy,” the æsthetic criticism of the Gogolian period, the party quarrels in France during the Restoration, Lessing and his age, etc., treated with the same superiority subjects of widely different kinds, but had his principal...1889, Georg Morris Cohen Brandes, Samuel C. Eastman transl., Impressions of Russia, New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, p 263

Forms of Gogolian

comparativemore Gogolian
superlativemost Gogolian

Origin of Gogolian

From Gogol + -ian, from Russian Го́голь (Gógolʹ) and Ukrainian Го́голь (Hóholʹ) from Ukrainian го́голь (hóholʹ, “common goldeneye, Bucephala clangula”), from Old East Slavic гоголь (gogolĭ) < Proto-Slavic *gogolĭ.

Questions about Gogolian

What does Gogolian mean?
Gogolian means of or relating to the Russian-Empire writer Nikolai Gogol (1809–1852) or his works.
What part of speech is Gogolian?
Gogolian is an adjective.

Words near Gogolian in the dictionary

  1. Gogo-Yimidjir
  2. gogobera
  3. gogoberas
  4. gogol
  5. Gogolesque
  6. Gogolian
  7. Gogon
  8. gogos
  9. gogotte
  10. Gogoșari
  11. Gogoșu

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