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say it: SOH-vee-ets
soviets is a noun meaning "the government of the Soviet Union". It carries one recorded sense.
the government of the Soviet Union
“the Soviets said they wanted to increase trade with Europe”
politics
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 soviets 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.