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Tchekist

Tchekist is the alternative spelling of Chekist.

Meaning of Chekist

Noun

Chekist (plural Chekists)

  1. (historical) An agent of the Cheka.
  2. (broadly, metonymically) A national security official of the KGB, FSB or any of the security services of the Soviet Union or Russian Federation.

Forms of Tchekist

pluralTchekists

Questions about Tchekist

What is Tchekist the alternative spelling of?
Tchekist is the alternative spelling of Chekist.

Words near Tchekist in the dictionary

  1. Tchebychev distance
  2. Tchebychev distances
  3. Tchefuncte River
  4. Tcheka
  5. Tchekas
  6. Tchekist
  7. Tchekists
  8. Tchelminar
  9. tchernozem
  10. tchernozems
  11. tchervonets

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Tchekist (page history and authors); Chekist (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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