czarevitch
Americannoun
noun
"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012Etymology
Origin of czarevitch
1700–10; < Russian tsarévich, equivalent to tsar' czar + -evich masculine patronymic suffix
Example Sentences
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Theirs was Czarevitch Alexei, heir apparent to the throne before the family was executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918.
From Washington Post
One of them, he told the Times, was Czarevitch Alexei, “the little boy who was the most famous hemophiliac in history.”
From Washington Post
They thought that moment had finally arrived when a funeral was scheduled last October for two long-lost children — Czarevitch Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria, whose remains were found in nearby woods many years later.
From New York Times
Czarevitch Alexei and Grand Duchess Maria were to be buried in the same grave.
From New York Times
Herring in a Fur Coat could be the title of a Soviet absurdist fable about a proletarian Cinderella who rejects the czarevitch and runs off with the rat turned coachman.
From New York Times
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