Moscow — English Dictionary

Proper noun

1. A federal city, the capital and largest city of Russia.

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   The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

   I was inclined to accept Yeltsin's invitation to go to Russia, but Tony Lake said Moscow shouldn't be my first foreign stop, and the rest of my team said it would divert attention from our domestic agenda.

   Everyone in Moscow uses the English term “face control,” though the phrase is often transliterated in print as “feis kontrol.”

   An IAF representative told an Indian parliamentary committee that due to the Ukraine war a “major delivery” from Moscow “is not going to take place.”

2. An oblast of Russia surrounding the city, which itself is not part of the oblast; in full, Moscow Oblast.

3. The government of Russia or the Soviet Union.

   Usage

   • metonymically

   Synonyms

   Kremlin

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   Moscow doubtless wants to make trouble for the Western Powers so far as she can without losing their recognition or encouraging actual hostility. She wants peace and trade and an opportunity for internal economic reconstruction above everything just now. It seems doubtful whether she expects to Bolshevize China, though she wants China fully independent of Western imperialism and friendly to her.

   I could not agree with the tactics or approach of those who, like Chiang Kai-shek in a speech on July 3, 1950, wanted the U.N. to charge the Russians with the full responsibility for this Korean conflict and to demand that Moscow put an end to it. This kind of bluster is certain to lead into an impossible dilemma. If these suggestions had been followed and the Soviets had ignored the order, as in all likelihood they would have done, either the United Nations would have stood convicted of weakness or World War III would have been on.

   The translation of Khrushchev's letter reached me later that day, and I read it with care and with growing disappointment. It seemed designed for propaganda purposes rather than serious diplomacy. Khrushchev roundly denounced "colonizers" and "imperialism" as the major causes of past wars. Of course, he did not mention the Soviet Union's attack on Finland, the obliteration of the Baltic states, or the "colonization" of Eastern Europe by Moscow after World War II.

   Moscow said "Nyet!"

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   Yet, a few US newscasters will go on the air at 6 pm or later and say, "Moscow said tonight.["] ... A careful writer would make his script read, "Moscow said today. ..."

   In addition, Moscow argued that Georgia had violated international law by introducing its forces into South Ossetia, a move Moscow said Tbilisi had committed itself not to do under the earlier CIS-sponsored peacekeeping arrangements.

   Their government says Moscow is funneling undocumented migrants to the border between the two countries to orchestrate an influx of immigration.

4. A large number of places in the United States: A city, the county seat of Latah County, Idaho; probably named after the Russian city.

5. A large number of places in the United States: A borough of Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania.

6. A large number of places in the United States: A small town in Iowa County, Wisconsin; named after the Mascouten tribe.

7. A large number of places in the United States: A small city in Fayette County, Tennessee; named after Mosgo, a Cherokee chief.

8. A large number of places in the United States: A small town in Somerset County, Maine.

9. A large number of places in the United States: A tiny city in Stevens County, Kansas; said to be named after Luis de Moscoso Alvarado, a Spanish explorer.

10. A large number of places in the United States: A village in Clermont County, Ohio; said to be named by French veterans of Napoleon's siege of Moscow.

11. A large number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Allegany County, Maryland.

12. A large number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Lamar County, Alabama.

13. A large number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Marengo County, Alabama.

14. A large number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Jefferson County, Arkansas.

15. A large number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Rush County, Indiana.

16. A large number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Muscatine County, Iowa.

17. A large number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Hickman County, Kentucky.

18. A large number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Hillsdale County, Michigan.

19. A large number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Freeborn County, Minnesota.

20. A large number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Kemper County, Mississippi.

21. A large number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Polk County, Texas.

22. A large number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in the town of Stowe, Lamoille County, Vermont.

23. A large number of places in the United States: An unincorporated community in Hancock County, West Virginia.

24. A large number of places in the United States: A ghost town in Licking County, Ohio.

25. A hamlet in East Ayrshire council area, Scotland; probably named or re-named in 1812 for Napoleon's retreat from Moscow (OS grid ref NS4840).

26. A village in Kottayam district, Kerala, India; named due to Soviet influence in Kerala during the Cold War.

27. A nickname for the Brandon Estate, a social housing estate in Southwark, Central London; named because of gun violence and the use of Russian-made contraband firearms.

    Usage

    • Multicultural-London-English
    • Slang