Gogol

American  

[goh-guhl, -gawl, gaw-guhl] / ˈgoʊ gəl, -gɔl, ˈgɔ gəl /

noun

1. Nikolai Vasilievich 1809–52, Russian novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

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Gogol British  

/ ˈɡɔɡəlj, ˈɡəʊɡɒl /

noun

1. Nikolai Vasilievich (nikaˈlaj vaˈsiljɪvitʃ). 1809–52, Russian novelist, dramatist, and short-story writer. His best-known works are The Government Inspector (1836), a comedy satirizing bureaucracy, and the novel Dead Souls (1842)

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Other Word Forms

• Gogolian
  adjective

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Example Sentences

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Gogol

The opening chapters distinguish various sorts of “tale,” with references to Herman Melville, Nikolai Gogol and others, moving on to German authors, including Goethe and Novalis.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

The thefts targeted rare Russian classics worth millions of euros in total, including by 19th-century literary greats Pushkin and Nikolai Gogol.

From Barron's ● Jun. 9, 2026

What happened next, as recounted by Irina and her mother, is as surreal and dark as a novel by 19th Century Russian writer Nikolai Gogol.

From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2024

Gogol concurred, adding that “it’s better to grow in a container with full sun — eight to 12 hours a day — than in the ground in a shade situation.”

From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2024

By February, when Gogol is six months old, Ashima and Ashoke know enough people to entertain on a proper scale.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri

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