TSARITSYN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tsaritsyn mean? 

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

1. a city in the European part of Russia on the Volga; site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TSARITSYN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A city in the European part of Russia on the Volga; site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Stalingrad; Tsaritsyn; Volgograd

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

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