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muscovy

/ˈmʌskəvi/

muscovy noun: muscovy duck.

Noun

muscovy (plural muscovies)

  1. Muscovy duck
    • The clerks have rejected it as much as they liked; I am told that they admitted somewhere about six thousands of muscovy; during our administration there were 28 or 30 thousands received, which is a large difference without taking into account other qualities, and all this does not give the French...1906, A. C. Laut, Pathfinders of the West

Proper noun capitalized: Muscovy

Muscovy

  1. The Russian territory around and ruled from Moscow by grand princes until it became the nucleus of a united Russia, which its dynasty ruled first as czars (kings) from Moscow, later as emperors from Saint Petersburg.
  2. (broadly, derogatory, usually) Russia.
    • The Russian Federation's war against Ukraine is now in its eighth year. Invaders from Muscovy have been attacking Ukrainians in their homeland every day for 2,563 days.2021, Michael MacKay, “4:45 PM · Feb 26, 2021”, in Twitter, Twitter

Forms of muscovy

pluralmuscovies

Origin of muscovy

A learned borrowing from Latin Moscovia, derived from Russian Москва́ (Moskvá).

Words formed from muscovy

Phrases with muscovy

Questions about muscovy

What does muscovy mean?
Muscovy means muscovy duck.
What part of speech is muscovy?
Muscovy can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce muscovy?
Muscovy is pronounced /ˈmʌskəvi/.
What is the plural of muscovy?
The plural of muscovy is muscovies.

Words near muscovy in the dictionary

  1. muscovites
  2. muscovitic
  3. muscovitization
  4. muscovitizations
  5. muscovitized
  6. muscovy
  7. Muscovy duck
  8. Muscovy ducks
  9. Muscovy glass
  10. Muscoy
  11. musculamine

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