Bolshevik

noun
/ˈbɒlʃəvɪk/UK/ˈboʊlʃəvɪk/US

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík), from большинство́ (bolʹšinstvó, “majority”).

  1. borrowed from большеви́к

Definitions

  1. A Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist…

    A Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917.

    • Мы, большевики, утверждаем, что на нашей стороне большинство настоящих, русских, партийных деятелей.
  2. A member of the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist…

    A member of the Communist Party that ruled the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

  3. Alternative form of Bolshevik.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at Bolshevik. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at bolshevik. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at bolshevik

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA