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.

Information about Menshevik

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of Menshevik is: Mensheviks.
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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

Words that rhyme with Menshevik

Bolshevik, bolshevik, menshevik, Sevik

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