Kreml

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proper noun

Synonym of Kremlin.

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proper nounthe Kreml
  1. rareSynonym of Kremlin.

    In the Kreml itself, the prison which still remains from the immortal past, is also in full use. The dungeons of the time of Ivan the Terrible, known here as the “stone bags,” are in the cellars.

    1925 April 5, Emma Goldman, “Emma Goldman Denounces Rule of Soviet”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC
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    The naturally conspicuous object of the Kreml is the cathedral, a massive, squarely built piece of Russo-Byzantine architecture, that ends in five cupolas, and has a tower from which, historical works aver, the metropolitan of Astrakhan was once flung headlong.

    1885 June, Edmund Noble, “Six Months at Astrakhan”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 23 Aug 2024

    However, of all parts of Moscow, none, perhaps, is more typical than that labyrinth of clean, quiet, winding streets and lanes which lies at the back of the Kreml, between two great radial streets, the Arbát and the Prechístenka, and is still called the Old Equerries’ Quarter, —the Stáraya Konyúshennaya.

    1898 September, P[eter] Kropotkin, “The Autobiography of a Revolutionist”, in The Atlantic Monthly, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 04 Oct 2022

    The US treasury department said on Friday it had imposed sanctions on another individual alongside Ionov, as well as on four entities that support the Kreml’s global malign influence and election interference operations, including in the US and Ukraine.

    2022 July 29, Jedidajah Otte, “Russia-Ukraine war: Zelenskiy says grain exports ready to start; Kyiv and Moscow both launch investigations into PoW deaths – as it happened”, in Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 Jul 2022

    Synonyms: Kremlin

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proper nounSynonym of Kremlin.

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Origin

  1. RussianКремль
  2. RussianКремль
  3. EnglishKreml

Borrowed from Russian Кремль (Kremlʹ).

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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