Menshevik Definition
mĕnshə-vĭk
mensheviki, mensheviks
noun
A member of the minority faction (Mensheviki) of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party, which opposed the more radical majority faction (Bolsheviki) from 1903 on.
Webster's New World
adjective
Of, characteristic of, or like the Mensheviks.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Menshevik
Noun
Singular:
Menshevik
Plural:
mensheviki, mensheviksOrigin of Menshevik
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Russian men'shevik from men'she less (from their relegation by Lenin to minority status) mei-2 in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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