Czarist

noun

noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of tsarist. alt-of, alternative

    "Had China been partitioned in the years immediately following 1895,* Czarist Russia would have obtained an area north of the Yellow River which constitutes nearly 40 per cent of the entire Chinese territory. But from 1900,** the United States stood opposed to the partition of China by advocating the Open Door Policy."

Adjective
  1. 1
    of or relating to or characteristic of a czar wordnet

Example

More examples

"Forged by the czarist secret police in Russia by plagiarizing several fictional works, the Protocols of the Elders of Zion continue to exert a large influence on the shape and character of modern antisemitism."

Etymology

From czar + -ist.

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