czarist

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A form of tsarist — One who supports a tsar.

UncommonScrabble 18

Meanings

nounczarist (plural czarists)

plural czarists

  1. 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

adjectiveof or relating to or characteristic of a czar

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. LatinCaesar
  2. Proto-Germanic*kaisaraz
  3. Proto-Slavic*cěsařь
  4. Old East Slavicцѣсарь (cěsarĭ)
  5. Old East Slavicцьсарь (cĭsarĭ)
  6. Russianцарь (carʹ)
  7. Englishczar
  8. Englishczarist

From czar + -ist.

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

Chicago

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

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