Rossiyan

adj, noun

adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Synonym of Russian (“inhabitant of Russia”). rare

    "Lena, my relatives perhpas share his oppinion but... I mean North Caucasians, Rossiyans who are part of Russian federation (also happen to be muslims too)... I think some new level of tollerance should be astablished based on new ideas otherwise "po zakonu prirody" they will go in one way or another."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of Russian (“of or pertaining to Russia”). rare

    "Again, conventional wisdom - made up by Russians and Western "experts" (who typically know Russian, but almost never know Ukrainian) - does make such a linguistic classification into West and East. Does it make sense? Let's compare the "Ukrainian nationalist" and the "Rossiyan nationalist" views of history."

Example

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"Again, conventional wisdom - made up by Russians and Western "experts" (who typically know Russian, but almost never know Ukrainian) - does make such a linguistic classification into West and East. Does it make sense? Let's compare the "Ukrainian nationalist" and the "Rossiyan nationalist" views of history."

Etymology

From Rossiya + -an. Compare Russian росси́йский (rossíjskij), россия́нин (rossijánin). Piecewise doublet of Russian.

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