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Moscow

//ˈmɒskəʊ// name, slang

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  1. 1
    A federal city, the capital and largest city of Russia.

    "The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them."

  2. 2
    Acronym of must have, should have, could have, won't have (“a group of categories for prioritization of requirements”). abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  3. 3
    An oblast of Russia surrounding the city, which itself is not part of the oblast; in full, Moscow Oblast.
  4. 4
    The government of Russia or the Soviet Union. metonymically

    "Moscow doubtless wants to make trouble for the Western Powers so far as she can without losing their recognition or encouraging actual hostility. She wants peace and trade and an opportunity for internal economic reconstruction above everything just now. It seems doubtful whether she expects to Bolshevize China, though she wants China fully independent of Western imperialism and friendly to her."

  5. 5
    A large number of places in the United States:; A city, the county seat of Latah County, Idaho; probably named after the Russian city.
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  1. 6
    A large number of places in the United States:; A borough of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.
  2. 7
    A large number of places in the United States:; A small town in Iowa County, Wisconsin; named after the Mascouten tribe.
  3. 8
    A large number of places in the United States:; A small city in Fayette County, Tennessee; named after Mosgo, a Cherokee chief.
  4. 9
    A large number of places in the United States:; A small town in Somerset County, Maine.
  5. 10
    A large number of places in the United States:; A tiny city in Stevens County, Kansas; said to be named after Luis de Moscoso Alvarado, a Spanish explorer.
  6. 11
    A large number of places in the United States:; A village in Clermont County, Ohio; said to be named by French veterans of Napoleon's siege of Moscow.
  7. 12
    A large number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland.
  8. 13
    A large number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Alabama.
  9. 14
    A large number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama.
  10. 15
    A large number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Arkansas.
  11. 16
    A large number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Rush County, Indiana.
  12. 17
    A large number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Muscatine County, Iowa.
  13. 18
    A large number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Hickman County, Kentucky.
  14. 19
    A large number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Hillsdale County, Michigan.
  15. 20
    A large number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Freeborn County, Minnesota.
  16. 21
    A large number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Kemper County, Mississippi.
  17. 22
    A large number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Polk County, Texas.
  18. 23
    A large number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in the town of Stowe, Lamoille County, Vermont.
  19. 24
    A large number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Hancock County, West Virginia.
  20. 25
    A large number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Licking County, Ohio.
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    A hamlet in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland; probably named or re-named in 1812 for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow (OS grid ref NS4840).
  22. 27
    A village in Kottayam district, Kerala, India; named due to Soviet influence in Kerala during the Cold War.
  23. 28
    A nickname for the Brandon Estate, a social housing estate in Southwark, Central London; named because of gun violence and the use of Russian-made contraband firearms. Multicultural-London-English, slang

Etymology

Ultimately from Old East Slavic Москов- (Moskov-), originally referring to the Moskva River, probably from Proto-Slavic *mosky (“swamp, dampness, moisture”). Perhaps related to Czech moskva (“raw bread”), Slovak mozga (“puddle”), Polish Mozgawa, and more distantly Latvian mazgāt (“to wash, rinse”), Sanskrit मज्जति (májjati, “to sink”), Latin mergō (“to dive”), all from Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (“to plunge, dip”). Cognate with Russian промозглый (promozglyj, “dank”). Doublet of Moskva.

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