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say it: RUHSH-uh
russia is a noun meaning "a former communist country in eastern Europe and northern Asia; established in 1922; included Russia and 14 other soviet socialist republics (Ukraine and Byelorussia and others); officially dissolved 31 December 1991". It is pronounced /ˈɹʌʃə/ — RUHSH-uh. It carries 4 recorded senses.
formerly the largest Soviet Socialist Republic in the USSR occupying eastern Europe and northern Asia
a former empire in eastern Europe and northern Asia created in the 14th century with Moscow as the capital; powerful in the 17th and 18th centuries under Peter the Great and Catherine the Great when Saint Petersburg was the capital; overthrown by revolution in 1917
a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state
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 russia 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.