White Russian

English

Adjective

White Russian (not comparable)

1. Of or relating to Russians with tsarist sympathies in the period directly following the 1917 Revolution.
   • 1979, John Le Carré, Smiley's People, Folio Society 2010, page 340:

     The overseer of the clinic was a White Russian woman, a nun, formerly of the Russian Orthodox community in Jerusalem, but a good-hearted woman. In these cases, we should not be too scrupulous politically, said the priest.

2. (obsolete) Of or relating to Belarus, literally "White Russia," or its language.

Synonyms

• Belarusan (academic)
• Belarusian (preferred)
• Belorussian (deprecated)

• Bielorussian (official before 1991)
• Byelorussian (deprecated)

Related terms

• Black Russian
• Great Russian
• Little Russian

Translations

of or relating to Russians with tsarist sympathies in the period directly following the 1917 Revolution

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• French: russe blanc (fr)

of or relating to Belarus

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• French: blanc-russien (fr)

Noun

White Russian (countable and uncountable, plural White Russians)

1. A cocktail consisting of coffee liqueur, vodka, and milk.
2. (history) a White Guardist, a Russian who supported the tsar in the 1917 Revolution and the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), and afterward. (Russian history)
3. (obsolete) A Belarusian person.
4. (obsolete, uncountable) The Belarusian language.

Synonyms

person of Belarusian nationality

• Belarusan (academic)
• Belarusian (preferred)
• Belorussian (deprecated)

• Bielorussian (official before 1991)
• Byelorussian (deprecated)

Related terms

• Black Russian
• Great Russian
• Little Russian

Translations

a cocktail

• Belarusian: Бе́лы ру́скі m (Bjély rúski)
• Finnish: valkovenäläinen (fi), valkea ryssä
• French: Russe Blanc
• German: Weißer Russe m, White Russian m
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• Hebrew: רוסי לבן m
• Portuguese: russo branco
• Russian: Бе́лый ру́сский m (Bélyj rússkij)
• Spanish: ruso blanco

a White Guardist (Russian Civil War 1917–1923)

• Russian: бе́лый (ru) m (bélyj), белогварде́ец (ru) m (belogvardéjec)
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a Belarusian person

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• French: Blanc-Russien m, Blanche-Russienne f

Belarusian language — see Belarusian

See also

• Wikipedia article on the Belarusian language