russia - Kamus SABDA Mobile

Found 1 definition: russia.

Pos: Noun

[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun russia has 4 senses

1. russia(n = noun.location) soviet union, union of soviet socialist republics, ussr - a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991;
is a kind of country, land, state
is a part of eurasia
has parts: soviet socialist republic, russia, russian soviet federated socialist republic, soviet russia, caspian, caspian sea

2. russia(n = noun.location) russian soviet federated socialist republic, soviet russia - formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia;
is a kind of soviet socialist republic
is a part of russia, soviet union, union of soviet socialist republics, ussr, eurasia

3. russia(n = noun.location) - a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917;
is a kind of empire, imperium
is a part of eurasia
has parts: muscovy
Derived form adjective russian₁

4. russia(n = noun.location) russian federation - a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state;
is a kind of country, land, state
is a part of eurasia
has parts: karelia, capital of the russian federation, moscow, russian capital, astrakhan, cherepovets, chechen republic, chechenia, chechnya, grozny, groznyy, kaluga, khabarovsk, kursk, siberia, european russia, gorki, gorkiy, gorky, nizhni novgorod, nizhnyi novgorod, kazan, leningrad, peterburg, petrograd, saint petersburg, st. petersburg, murmansk, nalchik, novgorod, molotov, perm, rostov, rostov na donu, rostov on don, saratov, smolensk, ufa, stalingrad, tsaritsyn, volgograd, novosibirsk, chelyabinsk, omsk, vladivostok, nova zembla, novaya zemlya, kola peninsula, amur, amur river, heilong, heilong jiang, dnieper, dnieper river, don, don river, ilmen, lake ilmen, ladoga, lake ladoga, lake onega, onega, neva, neva river, tien shan, tyan shan, ural mountains, urals, vetluga, vetluga river, volga, volga river, volkhov, volkhov river
is a member of cis, commonwealth of independent states
has particulars: asian russia
Derived form adjective russian₁

[CIDE DICTIONARY]

russia, n.

A country of Europe and Asia. [1913 Webster]

Russia iron, a kind of sheet iron made in Russia, having a lustrous blue-black surface. -- Russia leather, a soft kind of leather, made originally in Russia but now elsewhere, having a peculiar odor from being impregnated with an oil obtained from birch bark. It is much used in bookbinding, on account of its not being subject to mold, and being proof against insects. -- Russia matting, matting manufactured in Russia from the inner bark of the linden (Tilia Europæa).