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Tilsit

Tilsit noun: former name of Sovetsk: a city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.

Noun

Tilsit (uncountable)

  1. Former name of Sovetsk: a city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
  2. A light-yellow semihard smear-ripened cheese of East Prussian origin.

Origin of Tilsit

From German Tilsit, from the name of the Tilse River, from Old Prussian tilzi (“soggy”).

Questions about Tilsit

What does Tilsit mean?
Tilsit means former name of Sovetsk: a city in Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia.
What part of speech is Tilsit?
Tilsit is a noun.

Words near Tilsit in the dictionary

  1. tilomisole
  2. tilorone
  3. tilozepine
  4. Tilpa
  5. tils
  6. Tilsit
  7. Tilson
  8. Tilsons
  9. Tilstone Fearnall
  10. tilsuprost
  11. tilt

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