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CZAR ALEXANDER II
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• CZAR ALEXANDER II (noun)
The noun CZAR ALEXANDER II has 1 sense:
1. the son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881)
Familiarity information: CZAR ALEXANDER II used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
The son of Nicholas I who, as czar of Russia, introduced reforms that included limited emancipation of the serfs (1818-1881)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Alexander II; Alexander the Liberator; Czar Alexander II
Instance hypernyms:
czar; tsar; tzar (a male monarch or emperor (especially of Russia prior to 1917))
Domain region:
Russia (a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917)
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