MUSCOVY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Muscovy mean? 

• MUSCOVY (noun)
  The noun MUSCOVY has 1 sense:

1. a Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries; Moscow was the capital

  Familiarity information: MUSCOVY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUSCOVY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A Russian principality in the 13th to 16th centuries; Moscow was the capital

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

princedom; principality (territory ruled by a prince)

Holonyms ("Muscovy" is a part of...):

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)