gorbachev

1. 1.

   Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)

   SynonymsMikhail GorbachevMikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev

   Broaderstatesman

Other forms of gorbachev

plural

gorbachevs·

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.

Questions about gorbachev

What does gorbachev mean?

gorbachev means "Soviet statesman whose foreign policy brought an end to the Cold War and whose domestic policy introduced major reforms (born in 1931)".

How many syllables are in gorbachev?

gorbachev has 3 syllables: gor-ba-chev. The stress falls on "gor". In IPA it is /ˈɡɔɹbətʃɛv/.

What is another word for gorbachev?

Close synonyms include Mikhail Gorbachev, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is gorbachev a common word?

gorbachev is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.