MORDVIN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mordvin mean? 

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

1. a member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia

2. the Finnic language spoken by the Mordvinians

  Familiarity information: MORDVIN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MORDVIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the agricultural people living in the central Volga provinces of European Russia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Mordva; Mordvin; Mordvinian

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

Russian (a native or inhabitant of Russia)

Holonyms ("Mordvin" 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 Mordvinians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Mordva; Mordvin; Mordvinian

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

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