say it: bur-ISH-ni-kahv
baryshnikov is a noun meaning "Russian dancer and choreographer who migrated to the United States (born in 1948)". It carries one recorded sense.
Russian dancer and choreographer who migrated to the United States (born in 1948)
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for baryshnikov come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.