What is the difference between a gentleman and a boyar?
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Boyar
Synonyms for "boyar" (2 found)
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51 translations across 36 languages.
Armenian
1 entries- բոյար noun (rank of aristocracy)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- boyar noun (rank of aristocracy)
Belarusian
2 entries- ба́рын noun (rank of aristocracy)
- бая́рын noun (rank of aristocracy)
Bulgarian
3 entries- боля́р noun (rank of aristocracy)
- боля́рец noun (rank of aristocracy)
- боля́рин noun (rank of aristocracy)
Catalan
1 entries- boiar noun (rank of aristocracy)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 波雅爾 /波雅尔 noun (rank of aristocracy)
Church Slavic
1 entries- болꙗринъ noun (rank of aristocracy)
Czech
2 entries- bojar noun (rank of aristocracy)
- bárin noun (rank of aristocracy)
Dutch
1 entries- bojaar noun (rank of aristocracy)
Estonian
1 entries- bojaar noun (rank of aristocracy)
Finnish
1 entries- pajari noun (rank of aristocracy)
French
4 entries- barine noun (rank of aristocracy)
- barynia noun (rank of aristocracy)
- boyard noun (rank of aristocracy)
- boïard noun (rank of aristocracy)
Georgian
1 entries- ბოიარინი noun (rank of aristocracy)
German
1 entries- Bojare noun (rank of aristocracy)
Greek
1 entries- βογιάρος noun (rank of aristocracy)
Hungarian
1 entries- bojár noun (rank of aristocracy)
Ingrian
1 entries- bajari noun (rank of aristocracy)
Italian
1 entries- boiardo noun (rank of aristocracy)
Japanese
1 entries- ボヤール noun (rank of aristocracy)
Korean
1 entries- 보야르 noun (rank of aristocracy)
Macedonian
1 entries- бо́лјар noun (rank of aristocracy)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- бояринъ noun (rank of aristocracy)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- بویار noun (rank of aristocracy)
Polish
2 entries- bojar noun (rank of aristocracy)
- bojarzyn noun (rank of aristocracy)
Portuguese
1 entries- boiardo noun (rank of aristocracy)
Romanian
1 entries- boier noun (rank of aristocracy)
Russian
4 entries- ба́рин noun (rank of aristocracy)
- ба́рыня noun (rank of aristocracy)
- боя́рин noun (rank of aristocracy)
- боя́рыня noun (rank of aristocracy)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- boljar noun (rank of aristocracy)
- boljarin noun (rank of aristocracy)
- бољар noun (rank of aristocracy)
- бољарин noun (rank of aristocracy)
Slovak
1 entries- bojar noun (rank of aristocracy)
Southern Altai
1 entries- бояр noun (rank of aristocracy)
Spanish
1 entries- boyardo noun (rank of aristocracy)
Swedish
1 entries- bojar noun (rank of aristocracy)
Turkish
1 entries- boyar noun (rank of aristocracy)
Ukrainian
2 entries- боя́рин noun (rank of aristocracy)
- буй noun (rank of aristocracy)
Uzbek
1 entries- boyar noun (rank of aristocracy)
Yiddish
1 entries- באָיאַרין noun (rank of aristocracy)
Sample sentences
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Boris had abdicated in 889, leaving the throne to his son Vladimir, who had immediately identified himself with the boyar aristocracy which Boris had done his utmost to crush.
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A long series of wars was fought in the sixteenth century to keep Polish influence at bay in the West Russian lands, and prevent it from seducing Muscovy's restless boyars, the warrior-barons whose independence the grand dukes were determined to crush.
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some of his family looked to Orthodox Christianity to sustain them, and not only many of his boyars but most of his subjects were Orthodox Christians.
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