Word.ws English Dictionary

Soviet of Nationalities

Soviet of Nationalities proper noun: one of the two legislative chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; it represented the interests of members of different ethnicities in the USSR.

Proper noun

Soviet of Nationalities

  1. (historical) One of the two legislative chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; it represented the interests of members of different ethnicities in the USSR.

Origin of Soviet of Nationalities

Calque of Russian Сове́т Национа́льностей (Sovét Nacionálʹnostej).

Questions about Soviet of Nationalities

What does Soviet of Nationalities mean?
Soviet of Nationalities means one of the two legislative chambers of the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; it represented the interests of members of different ethnicities in the USSR.
What part of speech is Soviet of Nationalities?
Soviet of Nationalities is a proper noun.

Words near Soviet of Nationalities in the dictionary

  1. Soviet Armenia
  2. Soviet Bloc
  3. Soviet Canuckistan
  4. Soviet empire
  5. Soviet Jewnion
  6. Soviet of Nationalities
  7. Soviet of the Union
  8. Soviet republic
  9. Soviet republics
  10. Soviet Reunion
  11. Soviet Russia

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Soviet of Nationalities (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: “Soviet of Nationalities.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/soviet_of_nationalities. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.