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tsarevna

/(t)sɑːˈɹɛvnə/

tsarevna noun: the daughter of a tsar.

tsarevna: the daughter of a tsar
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Noun

tsarevna (plural tsarevnas or tsarevny)

  1. The daughter of a tsar.
    • The Tsaréviches and Tsarévnas have each separate apartments and servants to look after them.1967, Leo Wiener, Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, volume 1, page 138
    • The ban on marriage for the tsarevny was clearly linked with developments in Russia’s political structure and religious status.1990, Lindsey Hughes, Sophia, Regent of Russia: 1657–1704, New Haven, Conn.; London: Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 18

Examples of tsarevna in a sentence

  • And a long line of bridegrooms courted the tsarevna one after another:[…]Perhaps the fastidious tsarevna might even have found some of the bridegrooms to her liking.2004, Evgeniĭ Viktorovich Anisimov, Five Empresses: Court Life in Eighteenth-Century Russia, page 186:
  • There he became acquainted with maids in service to Ekaterina Alekseevna, Peter the Great's half-sister, and through them, he gained the tsarevna’s favor.2010, Yelena Mazour-Matusevich, Alexandra S. Korros, Aron I͡Akovlevich Gurevich, Saluting Aron Gurevich: Essays in History, Literature and...

Forms of tsarevna

pluraltsarevnas
pluraltsarevny
alternative formczarevna
alternative formtzarevna
alternative formTsarevna

Origin of tsarevna

Borrowed from Russian царе́вна (carévna).

Questions about tsarevna

What does tsarevna mean?
Tsarevna means the daughter of a tsar.
How do you use tsarevna in a sentence?
And a long line of bridegrooms courted the tsarevna one after another:[…]Perhaps the fastidious tsarevna might even have found some of the bridegrooms to her liking.
What part of speech is tsarevna?
Tsarevna is a noun.
How do you pronounce tsarevna?
Tsarevna is pronounced /(t)sɑːˈɹɛvnə/.
What is the plural of tsarevna?
The plural of tsarevna is tsarevnas.

Words near tsarevna in the dictionary

  1. tsareviches
  2. tsarevichi
  3. tsarevichs
  4. tsarevitch
  5. tsarevitches
  6. tsarevna
  7. tsarevnas
  8. tsarevny
  9. Tsargrad
  10. tsari
  11. tsarian

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