SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Soviet Socialist Republic mean? 

• SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC (noun)
  The noun SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC has 1 sense:

1. one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)

  Familiarity information: SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("Soviet Socialist Republic" is a kind of...):

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Instance hyponyms:

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

Holonyms ("Soviet Socialist Republic" is a part of...):

Russia; Soviet Union; Union of Soviet Socialist Republics; USSR (a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991)