soviet
Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).
Adjective
- Pertaining to or resembling a soviet (council).
Synonyms: sovietic
- Alternative letter-case form of Soviet (pertaining to the Soviet Union)
- An engineer who is not very soviet in his convictions is the hero. - 1935, Louis Fischer, Soviet Journey, page 129:
- Why are separate divisions for teachers and administrators in a state organization any more "soviet" than the same divisions in a city educational […] - 1947, Washington Education Association, Washington Education...
- The Soviet government is not very soviet anymore or, for that matter, much of a government. - 1991 August 27, “Whatchamacallit”, in Boston Globe:
Origin
Borrowed from Russian сове́т (sovét, “council”), from Old Russian borrowed from Old Church Slavonic съвѣтъ (sŭvětŭ, “advice”). Compounded from съ- (sŭ-) + вѣтъ (větŭ, “agreement”), from Proto-Slavic *větъ (“council, talk”). Related words include наве́т (navét), изве́т (izvét), отве́т (otvét), приве́т (privét), обе́т (obét), ве́че (véče), отвеча́ть (otvečátʹ), отве́тить (otvétitʹ), завеща́ть (zaveščátʹ), and совещаться (soveščatʹsja). Probably cognate with Polish witać (“to welcome”).
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- A workers' council, an institution first formed during the 1905 Russian Revolution and then instituted as the main form of communist government at all levels in the Soviet Union; by extension, a similar organization in early Chinese communism and elsewhere.
- They then established the West Hunan-Hupeh (Hsiang-O-Hsi) Special Committee and a little later transformed it into a soviet government. Party membership figures as of 1932 for a dozen counties in the area were estimated...
- Kratochvil, Jedlicka, Safar, Kubes and Vasata, who always took an interest in politics, set up a soviet in the last wagon and uncoupled it from the rest of the train in the night. - 2005, James Meek, The People's Act of...
- Workers' committees were forming embryo soviets, soldiers' and sailors' collectives had whole ships and regiments under their temporary command, landless workers in the countryside were taking over abandoned farms and...
Hypernyms: council group organization