menshevik
Meaning of menshevik
noun
a member of the moderate non-Leninist wing of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, opposed to the Bolsheviks and defeated by them after the overthrow of the tsar in 1917.
from Russian Menʹshevik ‘a member of the minority’, from menʹshe ‘less’. Lenin coined the name at a time when the party was (untypically) in a temporary minority.
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Hyphenation of menshevik
men-she-vik
- It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
- menshevik is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
menshevik synonyms
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Words that rhyme with menshevik
Bolshevik, Menshevik, bolshevik, Sevik
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