BOLSHEVIK (bolsheviki)

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Irregular inflected form: bolsheviki   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bolshevik mean? 

• BOLSHEVIK (noun)
  The noun BOLSHEVIK has 2 senses:

1. emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

2. a Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party

  Familiarity information: BOLSHEVIK used as a noun is rare.

• BOLSHEVIK (adjective)
  The adjective BOLSHEVIK has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Bolshevism

  Familiarity information: BOLSHEVIK used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOLSHEVIK (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emotionally charged terms used to refer to extreme radicals or revolutionaries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bolshevik; bolshie; bolshy; Marxist; red

Hypernyms ("Bolshevik" is a kind of...):

radical (a person who has radical ideas or opinions)

Derivation:

bolshevise (make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A Russian member of the left-wing majority group that followed Lenin and eventually became the Russian communist party

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Bolshevik; Bolshevist

Hypernyms ("Bolshevik" is a kind of...):

commie; communist (a socialist who advocates communism)

Instance hyponyms:

Bukharin; Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (Bolshevik leader in Russia who advocated gradual collectivism of the farms; was executed in a purge by Stalin (1888-1938))

Lenin; Nikolai Lenin; Vladimir Ilich Lenin; Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov; Vladimir Ilyich Lenin; Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov; Vladimir Lenin (Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924))

Leon Trotsky; Lev Davidovich Bronstein; Trotsky (Russian revolutionary and Communist theorist who helped Lenin and built up the army; he was ousted from the Communist Party by Stalin and eventually assassinated in Mexico (1879-1940))

Derivation:

bolshevise; bolshevize (make Communist or bring in accord with Communist principles)

• BOLSHEVIK (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Bolshevism

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Bolshevik; Bolshevist; Bolshevistic

Context example:

Bolshevik Revolution

Pertainym:

Bolshevism (Soviet communism)