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say it: SOH-vee-uht
soviet is a noun and adjective meaning "an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)". It is pronounced /ˈsoʊviət/ — SOH-vee-uht. It carries 2 recorded senses.
an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
of or relating to or characteristic of the former Soviet Union or its people
“Soviet leaders”
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 soviet 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.