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kulaks

kulaks is the plural of kulak.

Meaning of kulak

Noun

kulak (plural kulaks or kulaki)

  1. (historical) A prosperous peasant in the Russian Empire or the Soviet Union, who owned land and could hire workers.
    • The “internal organs,” as the CHEKA and the GPU and the KGB used to style themselves, were asked to police the mind for heresy as much as to torture kulaks to relinquish the food they withheld from the cities.2002 Sep, Christopher Hitchens, “Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight”, in The Atlantic
    Synonyms:
    kurkul

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Proper noun capitalized: Kulaks

Kulaks

  1. (plural) plural of Kulak

Questions about kulaks

What is kulaks the plural of?
Kulaks is the plural of kulak.
What part of speech is kulaks?
Kulaks is a proper noun.

Words near kulaks in the dictionary

  1. kulakdom
  2. kulakdoms
  3. kulaki
  4. kulakism
  5. kulakry
  6. kulaks
  7. Kulaman
  8. Kulaman Valley
  9. kulambu
  10. kulan
  11. Kulanapan

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