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- Russian · borrowed fromбольшеви́к
- English todayBolshevik
Borrowed from Russian большеви́к (bolʹševík), from большинство́ (bolʹšinstvó, “majority”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
bolshevik
Today it means: A Russian communist revolutionary, a member of the Bolshevik Party in the Communist Revolution of Russia in 1917. Full definition →
Russian большеви́к