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kiev | rus |

As a noun kiev

is .

As an adjective rus is

russian.

kiev

English

Alternative forms

* Kyiv, Kyjiv, Kyyiv, Kief * (obsolete) Kiow, Kiovia, Kiew, Kiou

Proper noun

(Kiev) (en proper noun)
  • The capital of Ukraine
  • The medieval principality centred on Kiev; the Kievan state or Kievan Rus
  • Kiev province (oblast ) of Ukraine

    • Quotations

    * (English Citations of "Kiev")

    Synonyms

    * (province) Kiev Oblast, Kyiv Oblast

    Derived terms

    * Kievan * chicken Kiev

    rus

    English

    Alternative forms

    * Rus'

    Proper noun

  • A people made up of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century, and whose settlements around Kiev and the Dnieper gave rise to the Russian principalities.
  • * 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 504:
    • In 860 the Rus’ streamed southwards and laid siege to Constantinople itself.
  • The medieval East Slavic state established by these same warrior merchants in the 9th century, whose capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev; Kievan Rus.
  • Any of the medieval East Slavic principalities ruled by this class, especially Kievan Rus.

    • Usage notes

    This neutral term is used more often instead of (term) or (term), acknowledging that the Belarusian, Russian, and Ukrainian people share the heritage of Rus. With this innovation, it is sometimes unclear how to replace the adjective (term) in the same context. Alternatives include using the attributive noun, as in “the Rus princes”, or rewriting to use “of Rus”. The nonstandard adjective (Rusian) is seen very rarely.

    Synonyms

    * Kievan Rus, Kievan Rus', Kyivan Rus, Kyivan Rus' * Russia, medieval Russia * Kiev, Kyiv, Kievan state

    Derived terms

    * Rusian, Rus'ian (rare)

    Related terms

    * Belarus, Belarusian * Little Russia, Little Russian * Rusnak, Russniak * Russia, Russian * Belarus, Belarusian, Bielorussia, Bielorussian * Rusyn * Ruthenia, Ruthene, Ruthenian

    Noun

    (Rus)
  • A person from Rus.
  • * 1959 , Boris Dmitrievich Grekov, Kiev Rus , Foreign Languages Pub. House, p 244:
    • And if a Rus' hits a Greek, or a Greek a '''Rus with a sword, a spear or any other weapon, he shall pay five litres of silver for his offence, in accordance with Rus law; and if he be unable (insolvent—''Author ) his property shall be sold for the best price it fetches, including the very clothes . . .
  • * 1959 , Serge? Mikha?lovich Solov’ev, History of Russia from the Earliest Times [2000], v 3 (The Shift Northward: Kievan Rus, 1154–1228), p 223:
    • If a Varangian claimed money from a Rus', or a ' Rus from a Varangian, and the debtor refused to pay, the plaintiff, accompanied by twelve witnesses, . . .
  • * 1973 , Donald W. Treadgold, The West in Russia and China: Religious and Secular Thought in Modern Times , v 1 (Russia, 1472–1917), ISBN 0521097258, p xxxv:
    • The Church of Kievan Rus knew men well-versed in Scripture and apparently other learning of the time, such as the Metropolitans Ioann II (d. 1089) and Klimetn Smoliatich (twelfth century). The former was Greek, and the latter a Rus .

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