Russ

¹

[ruhs]

noun

plural

Russ, Russes 

1. a Russian.

2. Archaic.,  the Russian language.

adjective

1. Russian.

Russ

²

[roos]

noun

1. Niemen.

Russ

³

Or Russ.

abbreviation

1. Russia.

2. Russian.

Russ

¹

/ rʌs /

noun

1. an archaic word for Russian

RUSS

²

abbreviation

1. Russia (international car registration)

Russ.

³

abbreviation

1. Russia(n)

Word History and Origins

Origin of Russ¹

From French russe, German Russe or Dutch rus, all ultimately from Old Russian Rusĭ the common East Slavic name for the East Slavic-speaking lands and peoples before c1500

Example Sentences

Russ & Daughters, the Jewish “appetizing store” in New York, has been shipping nationally since the 1960s, but volume for Thanksgiving doubled the first year of the Covid pandemic and has held steady since.

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I woke up early on game day and baked heart-shaped strawberry cream scones and assembled smoked-salmon and salmon-roe bagel sandwiches from a Russ & Daughters order placed the day before.

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The disability restructuring was “Russ Vought’s No. 1 priority for the Social Security Administration from Day 1,” said Leland Dudek, who was acting commissioner of the agency from February to May.

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“There were very few, if any, debates where Russ wouldn’t take the most extreme option available to him, the most conservative, the most budget-cutting.”

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Meanwhile, the White House’s budget director, Russ Vought, said last week that the number of layoffs will “probably end up being north of 10,000.”

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