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Little Russia en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. An ethnic enclave populated primarily by Russians or people of Russian ancestry.
   • We find that they settle in Little Italies and Little Russias, and instead of accepting the ideals of the country to which they have fled, they propagate their own traditions. 1925, Ruth Clouse, “First Affirmative”, in Edith M. Phelps, editor, University Debaters' Annual, volume 11, →OCLC, page 288:
   • The support system offered by the Relief Society was the initial draw for the émigrés to Harlem and helped establish a Little Russia in the neighborhood. 2019 April 24, Natalie K. Zelensky, Performing Tsarist Russia in New York: Music, Émigrés, and the American Imagination (Russian Music Studies), Indiana University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 30:

Forms

Little Russia en · PROPN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. (historical) The territory of the former Russian Empire inhabited by Ukrainians, approximately corresponding to modern central and eastern Ukraine.
   • I am very fond of the modest manner of life of those solitary owners of remote villages, who in Little Russia are commonly called ‘old-fashioned’ […]. 1928, Nicolai Gogol, translated by Constance Garnett, Old-world Landowners:
2. (historical) The former Imperial Russian administrative subdivisions in north central Ukraine.

Antonyms

Great Russia

Relateds

Ruthenia · Little Russianness · Little Russian

Translations (31)

ru Ма́лая Русь (a historical area) · bg Малору́сия (a historical area) · uk Мала́ Русь (a historical area) · nn Vesle-Russland (a historical area) · ka მალოროსია (a historical area) · nl Klein-Rusland (a historical area) · uk Малоро́сія (a historical area) · uk Мала́ Росі́я (a historical area) · nb Lillerussland (a historical area) · fr Petite Russie (a historical area) · be Маларо́сія (a historical area) · es Rusia Menor (a historical area) · ru Малору́ссия (a historical area) · de Kleinrussland (a historical area) · grc Μικρά Ῥωσία (a historical area) · mr छोटा रशिया (a historical area) · is Litla-Rússland (a historical area) · ru Малоро́ссия (a historical area) · da Lillerusland (a historical area) · sv Lillryssland (a historical area) · pl Małoruś (a historical area) · el Μικρορωσία (a historical area) · fi Vähä-Venäjä (a historical area) · ru Ма́лая Росси́я (a historical area) · cmn 小羅斯 /小罗斯 (a historical area) · pl Małorosja (a historical area) · vi Tiểu Nga (a historical area) · lv Mazkrievija (a historical area) · be Мала́я Расі́я (a historical area) · ro Mica Rusie (a historical area) · be Мала́я Русь (a historical area)