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Pushkinologist

Pushkinologist noun: one who studies Alexander Pushkin.

Noun

Pushkinologist (plural Pushkinologists)

  1. One who studies Alexander Pushkin.
    • The two classic accounts in English, by Prince D. S. Mirsky and Ernest Simmons, are a generation old, and great advances in Pushkin research have been made since them by Soviet Pushkinologists.1969 June 8, Richard Freedman, “A hot-headed Russian genius”, in Chicago Tribune, 122d year, number 159, Chicago, Ill., page 10
    • Although the name of his beloved has not come down to us, Pushkin later took pains to keep his amours in some sort of order (the classicist in him) in his famous “Don Juan lists,” those sources of unending speculation among Pushkinologists, in which he carefully but cryptically tabulated his hits...1971 February 28, Richard Freedman, “Exile, death, immortality”, in Chicago Tribune, page 4

Examples of Pushkinologist in a sentence

  • Men ponder God, Pushkinologists Pushkin.[…]Pushkinologists and the general Russian literary public argued for years about Nathalie’s fidelity;1987, Susan Brownsberger, transl., Pushkin House, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, translation of original by Andrei Bitov, pages...
  • It is a favourite pastime of “Pushkinologists” to puzzle over the real life identity of characters in Pushkin’s poems, especially in Evgeny Onegin.1992, Marinus Antony Wes, “Aere perennius: Alexander Pushkin”, in Classics in Russia 1700-1855: Between Two Bronze Horsemen (Brill’s...

Forms of Pushkinologist

pluralPushkinologists

Questions about Pushkinologist

What does Pushkinologist mean?
Pushkinologist means one who studies Alexander Pushkin.
How do you use Pushkinologist in a sentence?
Men ponder God, Pushkinologists Pushkin.[…]Pushkinologists and the general Russian literary public argued for years about Nathalie’s fidelity;
What part of speech is Pushkinologist?
Pushkinologist is a noun.
What is the plural of Pushkinologist?
The plural of Pushkinologist is Pushkinologists.

Words near Pushkinologist in the dictionary

  1. Pushkinesque
  2. Pushkinian
  3. Pushkinism
  4. Pushkinist
  5. Pushkinists
  6. Pushkinologist
  7. Pushkinologists
  8. Pushkinology
  9. pushknee
  10. pushknees
  11. pushlet

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