Meanings
- Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a Russian revolutionary and politician.
Lenin is very dead (if not yet buried, I wonder what Putin is waiting for); but Leninism is quite alive.
2017, Spandrell, Biological Leninism, archived from the original on 28 Jun 2025, page 11 more example
'He means the other Lennon,' Slowey's voice said. ' John Lennon from the Beatles.' And Farley saw him then, on the bend of the counter smoking a cigar. Slowey then turned to the barman, '... and he means the other Lenin, you know, the Russian revolutionary?'
2011, Christine Dwyer Hickey, The Cold Eye of Heaven, Atlantic Books, →ISBN, page 117
Origin
- RussianЛе́нин
- EnglishLenin
Transliteration of Russian Ле́нин (Lénin), probably due to the use of a passport of a friend, Nikolay Lenin, whose surname originated from the Siberian Lena river. It is commonly believed that the Lena derives its name from the original Even-Evenk name Elyu-Ene, which means "the Large River". By surface analysis, Lena + -in, "the man from the Lena". Another street name of a fellow Old Bolshevik conspirator, Stalin (“the man of steel”), is comparable as an alias based on an alleged attribute; and Bukharin is morphologically comparable as "a person from said place" (Bukhara + -in) but was Nikolai Bukharin's real surname rather than a street name.
More words from Russian
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Arabic لِينِين
- لِينِين (lenin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Basque Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Bengali লেনিন
- লেনিন (lenin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Bulgarian Ле́нин
- Ле́нин (Lénin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Catalan Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Chinese Mandarin 列寧 /列宁
- 列寧 /列宁 (Lièníng)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Czech Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Danish Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Dutch Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Estonian Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Finnish Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
French Lénine
- Léninea Russian revolutionary and politician
German Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Greek Λένιν
- Λένιν (Lénin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Hebrew לֵנִין
- לֵנִין (lénin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Hindi लेनिन
- लेनिन (lenin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Hungarian Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Icelandic Lenín
- Lenína Russian revolutionary and politician
Indonesian Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Irish Léinín
- Léinína Russian revolutionary and politician
Italian Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Japanese レーニン
- レーニン (Rēnin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Korean 레닌
- 레닌 (Renin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Latvian Ļeņins
- Ļeņinsa Russian revolutionary and politician
Lithuanian Leninas
- Leninasa Russian revolutionary and politician
Norwegian Bokmål Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Persian لنین
- لنین (lenin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Polish Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Portuguese Lenine, Lenin
- Leninea Russian revolutionary and politician
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Romanian Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Russian Ле́нин
- Ле́нин (Lénin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Slovak Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Spanish Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Swedish Lenin
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
Tamil லெனின்
- லெனின் (leṉiṉ)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Thai เลนิน
- เลนิน (lee-nin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Ukrainian Ле́нін
- Ле́нін (Lénin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Urdu لینن
- لینن (lenin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
Vietnamese Lê nin, Lenin
- Lê nina Russian revolutionary and politician
- Lenina Russian revolutionary and politician
- Lênina Russian revolutionary and politician
- Lê-nina Russian revolutionary and politician
- Lý Ninha Russian revolutionary and politician
- Lí Ninha Russian revolutionary and politician
- Lệ Ninha Russian revolutionary and politician
Yiddish לענין
- לענין (lenin)a Russian revolutionary and politician
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Cite this entry
Lenin. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lenin
“Lenin.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lenin. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Lenin,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Lenin.
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