SOVIET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Soviet mean? 

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

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

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

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

1. of or relating to or characteristic of the former Soviet Union or its people

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOVIET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

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

council (a body serving in an administrative capacity)

• SOVIET (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or characteristic of the former Soviet Union or its people

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

Soviet leaders

Pertainym:

Soviet Union (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)

 Context examples 

He received the "Hero of the Soviet Union", the Soviet Union's highest honor, for his work.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

The United States, the former Soviet Union and more recently China have sent spacecraft to the near side of the moon, but the latest Chinese landing is the first on the far side.

(Chinese Rover Making Tracks on Dark Side of the Moon, VOA)

A derivative of isoniazid, used to treat tuberculosis in the Soviet Union.

(Ftivazide, NCI Thesaurus)

Last year, Opportunity became the long-distance champion of all off-Earth vehicles when it topped the previous record set by the former Soviet Union's Lunokhod 2 moon rover.

(Opportunity Mars Rover Passes Marathon Distance, NASA)

It combines data from NASA's Bromide, Ozone, and Mercury Experiment (BROMEX) field campaign, NASA's Operation IceBridge flights, and instrumented buoys and ice floes staffed by Soviet scientists from the 1950s through the 1990s.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the countries of Eastern Europe such as Czechoslovakia, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Former Soviet Union, or Finland.

(Eastern European, NCI Thesaurus)

Ten years later, he led the Soviet part of the Apollo–Soyuz mission symbolizing that the Space Race was over.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

The researchers found that, since the Soviet period, the spring snowpack has thinned from 14 inches to 9 inches (35 centimeters to 22 centimeters) in the western Arctic and from 13 inches to 6 inches (33 centimeters to 14.5 centimeters) in the Beaufort and Chukchi seas, north and west of Alaska, despite notable uncertainty in the historical estimates.

(Snow cover on Arctic Sea ice has thinned 30 to 50 percent, NASA)

Leonov, also known as "cosmonaut No. 11", was part of the Soviet Union's original team of cosmonauts.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)

Leonov was famous for performing the first human spacewalk as part of the Soviet Union's Voskhod 2 mission.

(Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov dies at age 85, Wikinews)