Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun russia

4 senses of russia

Sense 1
Soviet Union, Russia, 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)
       INSTANCE OF=> country, state, land -- (the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries")

Sense 2
Soviet Russia, Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic -- (formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia)
       INSTANCE OF=> Soviet Socialist Republic -- (one of the states that formerly made up the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922-1991))

Sense 3
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)
       INSTANCE OF=> empire, imperium -- (the domain ruled by an emperor or empress; the region over which imperial dominion is exercised)

Sense 4
Russia, Russian Federation -- (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)
       INSTANCE OF=> country, state, land -- (the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries")