Russia

plural Russias · alternative obsolete Rushia

1. countableuncountableA transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Official names: Russia and Russian Federation. Capital and largest city: Moscow. It borders the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas. Part of the Soviet Union from 1917 through 1991.

   The next stop that we make will be England / Tell all the folks in Russia, and China, too / Don't you know that it's time to get on board? / And let this train keep on riding, riding on through

   1972, The O'Jays, “Love Train”, in Back Stabbers

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   “Revoking PNTR for Russia is going to make it harder for Russia to do business with the United States and doing it in unison with other nations that make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to the Russian economy that’s already suffering very badly from our sanctions,” Biden said.

   2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, in CNN

   Russia is unable to honor its arms delivery commitments to India because of the war in Ukraine, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said, placing a potential strain on New Delhi’s relationship with its largest defense supplier as Moscow attempts to ramp up weapons production.

   2023 March 24, Rhea Mogul, “Russia can’t meet India arms deliveries due to Ukraine war, Indian Air Force says”, in CNN

   Synonyms: Mordor, Orcistan, RF, Rossia, Rossiia, Rossija, Rossiya, RuSSia

2. broadlycountablehistoricaluncountableThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (a very common name, although more formally Russia, the RSFSR, was one of several constituent republics of the USSR).
3. countablehistoricaluncountableThe Russian Empire; the tsarist empire in Russia lasting from 1721 to 1917.

   Ukraine (“frontier”), the name formerly given to a district of European Russia, now comprising the governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava.

   1911, “Ukraine”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

4. countabledatedhistoricaluncountableKievan Rus; the medieval East Slavic state centered in Kiev.

   Ukraine (“frontier”), the name formerly given to a district of European Russia, now comprising the governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava.

   1911, “Ukraine”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

5. countabledatedAny of several East Slavic states descended from Kievan Rus, typically including Russia (Great Russia), Belarus (White Russia) and Ukraine (Little Russia).

   Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias — the empire over self.

   1842, George Eliot, Selections from George Eliot's letters, Letter to Cara Bray, page 24

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   Ukraine (“frontier”), the name formerly given to a district of European Russia, now comprising the governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava.

   1911, “Ukraine”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica

   Then there is White Russia and Red Russia, Great Russia and Little Russia, Russia of the Frozen North and Russia of the Far East — a Russia equally dangerous to every one of her neighbours […]

   1914, Russia and the Russian People

6. A place in the United States:
   1. countableuncountableA township in Polk County, Minnesota.
   2. countableuncountableAn unincorporated community in Jefferson Township, Morris County, New Jersey.
   3. countableuncountableA town in Herkimer County, New York.
   4. countableuncountableA village in Loramie Township, Shelby County, Ohio.

plural Russias · alternative obsolete Rushia

1. abbreviationcountableellipsisuncountableEllipsis of Russia leather.

   Dull Russias will prove a good selling line for women according to the predictions of certain manufacturers.

   1914, Shoe and Leather Journal, volume 27, page 36

1. derogatoryhumorousoffensiveslangRussia.