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Yeltsinian

Yeltsinian adjective: of or relating to Boris Yeltsin (Russian: Бори́с Е́льцин; 1931–2007), Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.

Adjective

Yeltsinian (comparative more Yeltsinian, superlative most Yeltsinian)

  1. Of or relating to Boris Yeltsin (Russian: Бори́с Е́льцин; 1931–2007), Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.
    • It would be wholly misplaced to assess the Yeltsinian wager through the prism of our own Jeffersonian democracy.1992, Helen Purkitt, World politics, 92/93, page 73

Forms of Yeltsinian

comparativemore Yeltsinian
superlativemost Yeltsinian

Origin of Yeltsinian

From Yeltsin + -ian.

Questions about Yeltsinian

What does Yeltsinian mean?
Yeltsinian means of or relating to Boris Yeltsin (Russian: Бори́с Е́льцин; 1931–2007), Russian politician and the first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.
What part of speech is Yeltsinian?
Yeltsinian is an adjective.

Words near Yeltsinian in the dictionary

  1. yeltings
  2. Yelton
  3. Yeltons
  4. yelts
  5. Yeltsin
  6. Yeltsinian
  7. Yeltsinism
  8. Yeltsinite
  9. Yeltsinites
  10. yelve
  11. Yelvertoft

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