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tamizdats

tamizdats is the plural of tamizdat.

Meaning of tamizdat

Noun

tamizdat (countable and uncountable, plural tamizdats)

  1. Writings published abroad and smuggled back into the former USSR.
    • Foremost—and most controversial — of the Western groups engaged in tamizdat is the Posev‐Grani [organization], commonly known as N.T.S.1970 March 15, Albert Parry, “Samizdat Is Russia' Underground Press”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2019

Questions about tamizdats

What is tamizdats the plural of?
Tamizdats is the plural of tamizdat.

Words near tamizdats in the dictionary

  1. Tamisiea
  2. Tamisieas
  3. tamitinol
  4. tamizdat
  5. tamizdatchik
  6. tamizdats
  7. tamjan
  8. tamjans
  9. tamkeen
  10. tamkin
  11. tamkins

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tamizdats (page history and authors); tamizdat (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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