ən noun
2.
a native or inhabitant of Russia.
3.
a member of a Slavic people, the dominant ethnic group in the Russian Federation, whose historical homeland lies along the upper Volga and Oka rivers and adjacent areas.
4.
the Slavic language of this people, written in the Cyrillic alphabet: the official language of Russia or the Russian Federation. Abbreviation: Russ, Russ.
5.
Informal. Russian dressing.
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Russian
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| the offspring of a zebra and a donkey. |
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| —n | |
| 1. | the official language of Russia: an Indo-European language belonging to the East Slavonic branch |
| 2. | the official language of the former Soviet Union |
| 3. | a native or inhabitant of Russia |
| —adj | |
| 4. | of, relating to, or characteristic of Russia, its people, or their language |
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