Carpatho-rusyn

name, noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A member of an east-Slavic ethnic group of the Carpathian mountains.

    "Religion frequently divided East Slavs. By 1924, when the Ukrainians and the Carpatho-Rusyns were given separate Greek Catholic bishops, there were more than 235,000 members of the Ukrainian diocese (headquartered in Philadelphia) and[…]"

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The Carpatho-Rusyn language. uncountable

Synonyms

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carpathian rusyn

Example

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"Religion frequently divided East Slavs. By 1924, when the Ukrainians and the Carpatho-Rusyns were given separate Greek Catholic bishops, there were more than 235,000 members of the Ukrainian diocese (headquartered in Philadelphia) and[…]"

Etymology

From Carpatho- + Rusyn.

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