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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
soviet
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
communist/Soviet etc propaganda
▪ Much communist propaganda was about the evils of capitalism.
the Roman/British/Soviet etc empire
▪ The Barbarians finally overthrew the Roman empire.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
local
▪ He demanded the confiscation of all private estates, the nationalization of the land, and its management by local peasant soviets.
▪ This is to be the party's platform for the elections to republican and local soviets early next year.
■ NOUN
city
▪ After the official Red Square parade there were two unofficial marches in Moscow, sanctioned by the city soviet.
▪ Vyacheslav Komissarov as Moscow's police chief, responsible to Moscow city soviet.
▪ In defiance, on March 24 the executive committee of the Moscow city soviet authorized the Manezh Square rally.
▪ The response of the Moscow city soviet presidium to Pugo's decree raised the prospect of rival police forces in the capital.
▪ The effect of the decree was to wrest control of Moscow's police force from the city soviet and the regional soviet.
▪ Gavriil Popov, a radical economist, had been elected chair of the Moscow city soviet on April 20.
▪ The demonstration had at first been banned by the Moscow city soviet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gavriil Popov, a radical economist, had been elected chair of the Moscow city soviet on April 20.
▪ In defiance, on March 24 the executive committee of the Moscow city soviet authorized the Manezh Square rally.
▪ It worked in close co-ordination with the government bureaucracy and with the soviets.
▪ Similar soviets had emerged in other cities earlier in the year, but that of St Petersburg took on unique importance.
▪ The effect of the decree was to wrest control of Moscow's police force from the city soviet and the regional soviet.
▪ They had established new institutions, new parties, soviets, and unions.
▪ Vyacheslav Komissarov as Moscow's police chief, responsible to Moscow city soviet.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
soviet

1917, from Russian sovet "governing council," literally "council," from Old Russian suvetu "assembly," from su "with" (from *su(n)- "with, together," from PIE *ksun- "with") + vetu "counsel." The whole is a loan-translation of Greek symboulion "council of advisers." As an adjective from 1918.

Wiktionary
soviet

a. 1 Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council). 2 Relating to the ideology, culture or politics of the Soviet Union. n. 1 (context now historical English) A form of governing council in the former Soviet Union. 2 (context historical English) The main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union imposed in the Bolshevik http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October%20Revolution in the former imperial Russia.

WordNet
soviet

n. an elected governmental council in a Communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Wikipedia
Soviet (disambiguation)

Soviet may refer to:

  • Soviet (council), a council
  • An adjective for something related to the Soviet Union
  • Soviet (band), American synth-rock band
Soviet (council)

Soviets (singular: soviet; , , literally "council" in English) were political organizations and governmental bodies, primarily associated with the Russian Revolutions and the history of the Soviet Union, and which gave the name to the latter state.

Soviet (band)

Soviet is an American electronic rock band that formed in 1998 in Syracuse, NY. They later moved to New York City. Although influenced more by new romantic and Britpop music, Soviet was one of several Electropop artists who surfaced in the late 1990s that popularized the sound New York promoter and DJ Larry Tee coined as electroclash. The longest standing core member lineup consists of vocalist and songwriter Keith Ruggiero, and keyboardists Christopher Otchy, Amanda Lynn Berkowitz, and Greg Kochan.

Usage examples of "soviet".

Saudi Arabia and the United States supplied billions of dollars worth of secret assistance to rebel groups in Afghanistan fighting the Soviet occupation.

In mid-1991, Bin Ladin dispatched a band of supporters to the northern Afghanistan border to assist the Tajikistan Islamists in the ethnic conflicts that had been boiling there even before the Central Asian departments of the Soviet Union became independent states.

The Soviet bombers climbed steeply on afterburner, activating their own look-down radars to find targets for their missiles.

The man advising Roosevelt during this transaction was Alger Hiss, Soviet agent.

Torriti turned in a complete circle, as if he were winding himself up, then asked if Angleton was aware that Philby had signed out MI6 Source Books on the Soviet Union long before he became involved in Soviet counterespionage.

You knew from Angleton that the Americans had deciphered bits of text that identified Maclean as the Soviet agent HOMER.

Another African nation was delivered, trussed and tied, to Soviet sovereignty, and millions of black Angolans were condemned to another decade of brutal civil war.

Eventually, over the years, the Caspian Sea station was able to produce an electronic map of virtually all the ground-based Soviet missile-tracking radars, including the antiballistic missile radar systems at a test range a thousand miles away.

Beyond that is a pine forest in which is hidden a very sophisticated phased-array radar site that is the command center for all the Soviet antiballistic missile silos around Moscow.

Those older weapons were the Soviet RPD-series 40mm antitank free-flight missile and the American 66mm light antitank weapon.

The quartermaster had begun making notations showing the Soviet submarine running alongside the track of the Archerfish as soon as the data had come in from sonar.

East USS Archerfish The Skagerrak East of the North Sea It was some thirty hours since Alek Kondrachev had made his suggestion that the SEALs land on Soviet territory.

ZULU 67 221 North, 43 T East USS Archerfish The White Sea Union of Soviet Socialist Republics It had been a long, slow trip in from the Skagen to the mouth of the White Sea.

A Turkic dialect, Azerbaijani is spoken by several million people in the former Soviet republic of Azerbaijan and the contiguous areas of Iran and Afghanistan.

The only reason the Soviet Union occupied the eastern half of Poland was that the Polish state was internally bankrupt, the government had disintegrated, and the Ukrainians and Belorussians in Poland, cousins to their Soviet kindred, were left to the mercy of fate.