moujik

Questions about moujik

What does moujik mean?

moujik means "a Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917)".

How many syllables are in moujik?

moujik has 2 syllables and divides as mou-jik under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for moujik?

Close synonyms include muzhik, mujik, muzjik. 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 moujik a common word?

moujik is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for moujik come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.