say it: LEN-uhn
lenin is a noun meaning "Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)". It carries one recorded sense.
Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)
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 lenin 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.