gulags
Meaning of gulags
noun
- A prison camp.
- The system of all Soviet prison and/or labor camps in use during the Stalinist period.
One important difference between the GULAG system and the Nazi concentration camps was that a person sentenced to five years of hard labor in a Soviet labor camp could expect, assuming he or she survived, to be released at the end of the sentence. [Gulag: Soviet Prison Camps and Their Legacy; By David Hosford, Pamela Kachurin and Thomas Lamont. National Resource Center for Russian, East European and Central Asian Studies, Harvard University]
Information about gulags
- It is a name.
- The singular form of gulags is: gulag.
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Hyphenation of gulags
gu-lags
- It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
- gulags is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables
Words that rhyme with gulags
lags, stalags, blags, clags, beflags, cornflags, flags, oflags, reflags, rolags, slags, jetlags, Gulags, graylags, greylags
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