Meanings
plural czarists
- alternativeAlternative spelling of tsarist.
1 more example
Had China been partitioned in the years immediately following 1895,* Czarist Russia would have obtained an area north of the Yellow River which constitutes nearly 40 per cent of the entire Chinese territory. But from 1900,** the United States stood opposed to the partition of China by advocating the Open Door Policy.
1957, Chiang Chung-cheng (Kai-shek), “Beginnings”, in Soviet Russia in China: A Summing-up at Seventy, New York: Farrar, Straus and Cudahy, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 12
Synonyms & antonyms
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- LatinCaesar
- Proto-Germanic*kaisaraz
- Proto-Slavic*cěsařь
- Old East Slavicцѣсарь (cěsarĭ)
- Old East Slavicцьсарь (cĭsarĭ)
- Russianцарь (carʹ)
- Englishczar
- Englishczarist
Cite this entry
czarist. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/czarist
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