Tolstoy
noun
Leo or Lev Nikolaevich Count, 1828–1910, Russian novelist and social critic.
Tolstoyan
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a word derived from
Tolstoy.
Example Sentences
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Ms. Rizer begins in a peasant shift of woven jute and ends, after seven layers and 154 pounds of increasing Tolstoyan grandeur, cocooned in a wintry mantle of taupe.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 1, 2025
Johnson means to offer a way out of the Tolstoyan conundrum.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 14, 2019
Bulky enough in an ordinary edition, the large print is stupendous — but there is something Tolstoyan about its girth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2018
I am too Tolstoyan, to believe that some kind of revolution in Russia would have never happened.
From New York Times ● Nov. 6, 2017
Her son, the teenage Tolstoyan, believed that wealth was shameful, corrupting, inherently evil—which is ironic because Chris was a natural-born capitalist with an uncanny knack for making a buck.
From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer
