Word.ws English Dictionary

Great Russian

Great Russian adjective: of or pertaining to Great Russia.

Adjective

Great Russian (not comparable)

  1. (historical) Of or pertaining to Great Russia.
    • There is no doubt that Lenin hated Great Russian chauvinism and did his best to extirpate it within the party.1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in...
  2. (historical) Of or pertaining to Great Russians, the language of Great Russia, as opposed to Little Russia, White Russia, etc.
    Synonyms:
    Russian

Noun

Great Russian (plural Great Russians)

  1. (historical) A person from, or an inhabitant of, Great Russia.

Proper noun

Great Russian

  1. (obsolete) The Russian language, especially when (possibly erroneously) considered to be mutually intelligible with the Ukrainian (Little Russian) and Belarusian (White Russian) languages.

Synonyms of Great Russian

Forms of Great Russian

pluralGreat Russians

Questions about Great Russian

What does Great Russian mean?
Great Russian means of or pertaining to Great Russia.
What part of speech is Great Russian?
Great Russian can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.

Words near Great Russian in the dictionary

  1. Great River Road
  2. Great Rollright
  3. great room
  4. great rooms
  5. Great Russia
  6. Great Russian
  7. Great Saint James
  8. Great Salkeld
  9. Great Salt Lake
  10. Great Salt Lake Desert
  11. Great Sandy Desert

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Great Russian (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Great Russian.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/great_russian. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.