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Little Russian

American  

noun

  1. former name for one of the Ruthenian people or their dialect of Ukrainian.

  2. Ukrainian.


Little Russian British  

noun

  1. a former word for Ukrainian

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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A mother in a Little Russian tale had a baby of extraordinary habits.

From The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Edwin Sidney Hartland

Footnote 6: This is the popular form in Little Russian; therefore it is quoted.

From With Fire and Sword An Historical Novel of Poland and Russia. by Henryk Sienkiewicz

The Little Russian rowed steadily on the same side as 'Gustus Theodore.

From A Poor Man's House by Stephen Sydney Reynolds

A young Little Russian woman laid the table and handed ham, then beetroot soup.

From The Horse-Stealers and Other Stories by Constance Garnett

In Little Russian the title hospodar is specially applied to the master of a house or the head of a family.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

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