gopnik
Syllables: gop·nik/ˈɡoʊpnɪk/
gopnik noun: in Russia, Eastern Europe, former Soviet republics, and other Slavic countries, a member of a subculture of young people of lower-class low-income backgrounds, mostly millennials, who usually live in the Russian suburbs.
Noun
gopnik (plural gopniks or gopniki or gopota or gopari)
- In Russia, Eastern Europe, former Soviet republics, and other Slavic countries, a member of a subculture of young people of lower-class low-income backgrounds, mostly millennials, who usually live in the Russian suburbs.
Proper noun capitalized: Gopnik
Gopnik (plural Gopniks)
- A surname.
- Adam Gopnik has, by many accounts, including his own, a lovely life. A longtime staff writer for the New Yorker and bestselling author, Gopnik lives in Manhattan with his wife, Martha, a film-maker, and their two children, and he moves in the kind of circles that allow him to drop casual lines into...2017 December 8, Hadley Freeman, “Adam Gopnik: ‘You’re waltzing along and suddenly you’re portrayed as a monster of privilege’”, in The Guardian, archived from the original on 15 Aug 2018
Synonyms of gopnik
Forms of gopnik
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | gopniks |
| plural | gopniki |
| plural | gopota |
| plural | gopari |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Gopniks |
Origin of gopnik
Borrowed from Russian го́пник (gópnik).
Questions about gopnik
- What does gopnik mean?
- Gopnik means in Russia, Eastern Europe, former Soviet republics, and other Slavic countries, a member of a subculture of young people of lower-class low-income backgrounds, mostly millennials, who usually live in the Russian suburbs.
- What part of speech is gopnik?
- Gopnik can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce gopnik?
- Gopnik is pronounced /ˈɡoʊpnɪk/.
- What is the plural of gopnik?
- The plural of gopnik is gopniks.
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