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Levitsky

Levitsky proper noun: a surname from Russian.

Proper noun

Levitsky (plural Levitskys)

  1. A surname from Russian.
    • “Honest to god, I’ve never seen anything like it,” said Steven Levitsky, a Harvard political scientist and coauthor of “How Democracies Die” and “Competitive Authoritarianism.” […] In Turkey, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has purged thousands of judges from the judiciary as part of a broader...2025 March 20, Amanda Taub, “‘This is worse’: Trump’s judicial defiance veers beyond the autocrat playbook”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 23 Apr 2025

Forms of Levitsky

pluralLevitskys

Origin of Levitsky

Derived from Russian Леви́цкий (Levíckij).

Questions about Levitsky

What does Levitsky mean?
Levitsky means a surname from Russian.
What part of speech is Levitsky?
Levitsky is a proper noun.

Words near Levitsky in the dictionary

  1. leviton
  2. levitonic
  3. levitons
  4. levitous
  5. Levits
  6. Levitsky
  7. Levitskys
  8. Levitt
  9. Levittown
  10. Levittowns
  11. Levitts

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