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streltsy

streltsy is the plural of strelets.

Meaning of strelets

Noun

strelets (plural streltsy)

  1. (historical) A unit of Russian guardsmen from the 16th to the early 18th centuries, armed with a firearm.

Questions about streltsy

What is streltsy the plural of?
Streltsy is the plural of strelets.

Words near streltsy in the dictionary

  1. strelitziaceous
  2. strelitzias
  3. strelkinite
  4. Strelow
  5. Strelows
  6. streltsy
  7. stremma
  8. stremmas
  9. stremmata
  10. Strempel
  11. stremtch

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Adapted from Wiktionary: streltsy (page history and authors); strelets (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.

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