Octobrist

O1C3T1O1B3R1I1S1T1

noun

A member of the league formed October 1905 in response to imperial policies.

OriginRussian октябрист →
Scrabble 13
Ask AI about this wordChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

Meanings

nounOctobrist (plural Octobrists)

plural Octobrists

  1. A member of the league formed October 1905 in response to imperial policies.
  2. A member of a Russian communist children's organization founded 1925 and named in honor of the October Revolution.

    They help prepare the children to enter the Octobrists and organize the work of Octobrist groups/

    1983, Soviet Education - Volume 25, page 95

Origin

  1. Russianоктябрист
  2. EnglishOctobrist

Calque of Russian октябрист (oktjabrist).

More words from Russian

Full word history & related roots →
Cite this entry
APA

Octobrist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Octobrist

MLA

“Octobrist.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Octobrist. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Octobrist,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Octobrist.

Source: Octobrist on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.