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SOVIET SOCIALIST REPUBLIC
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I. (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)