CHEREMIS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cheremis mean? 

• CHEREMIS (noun)
  The noun CHEREMIS has 2 senses:

1. a member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia

2. the Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis

  Familiarity information: CHEREMIS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHEREMIS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Cheremis; Cheremiss; Mari

Hypernyms ("Cheremis" is a kind of...):

Russian (a native or inhabitant of Russia)

Holonyms ("Cheremis" is a member of...):

Russia; Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic; Soviet Russia (formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Cheremis; Cheremiss; Mari

Hypernyms ("Cheremis" is a kind of...):

Volgaic (a group of Finnic languages spoken around the Volga river)