Czarist
noun
noun ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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 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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