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CZAR ALEXANDER II

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CZAR ALEXANDER II (noun)
  The noun CZAR ALEXANDER II has 1 sense:

1. the son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881)play

  Familiarity information: CZAR ALEXANDER II used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


CZAR ALEXANDER II (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Alexander II; Alexander the Liberator; Czar Alexander II

Instance hypernyms:

czar; tsar; tzar (a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917))

Domain region:

Russia (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)


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