russian

1. 1.

   of or pertaining to or characteristic of Russia or its people or culture or language

   “Russian dancing”

Other forms of russian

plural

russians·

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 russian

What does russian mean?

russian means "a native or inhabitant of Russia". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in russian?

russian has 2 syllables: rus-sian. The stress falls on "rus". In IPA it is /ˈɹʌʃən/.

Is russian a common word?

russian is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.