CAPITAL OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does capital of the Russian Federation mean? 

• CAPITAL OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (noun)
  The noun CAPITAL OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION has 1 sense:

1. a city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation

  Familiarity information: CAPITAL OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CAPITAL OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

capital of the Russian Federation; Moscow; Russian capital

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "capital of the Russian Federation"):

Kremlin (citadel of Moscow, housing the offices of the Russian government)

Holonyms ("capital of the Russian Federation" is a part of...):

Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)