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White Russian
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Noun
- (Russian History) Russians with tsarist sympathies on the side of the White Army who fought against the Bolshevik Red Army and the anarchist Green Army in the 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War (1918–20).
- Russian political émigrés with tsarist sympathies who fled Russia after the 1917 Revolution and lived in exile (e.g., in Paris).
- (obsolete) A Belarusian person.
- (obsolete) The Belarusian language.
Synonyms
person of Belarusian nationality
- Belarusan (academic)
- Belarusian (preferred)
- Belorussian (deprecated)
- Byelorussian (deprecated)
See also
- Wikipedia article on the Belarusian language
Adjective
- of or related to Russians with tsarist sympathies in the period directly following the 1917 Revolution.
- (obsolete) of or related to White Russia or the White Russian language.
Synonyms
- Belarusan (academic)
- Belarusian (preferred)
- Belorussian (deprecated)
- Byelorussian (deprecated)
Noun
Translations
- Finnish: valkovenäläinen , valkea ryssä
- French: Russe Blanc
- German: Weißrusse
- Portuguese: russo branco
- Spanish: ruso blanco
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