tsarina
Britishnoun
Etymology
Origin of tsarina
from Italian, Spanish czarina , from German Czarin
Vocabulary lists containing tsarina
Russia - Introductory
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Russia - Middle School and High School
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Example Sentences
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Just as you get into the swing of the story of Rasputin, for instance, the tsarina gets lost trying to pronounce “aristocracy.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 16, 2018
As part of the new probe, investigators exhumed the remains the tsar and tsarina from their tomb in Peter and Paul Fortress in St. Petersburg.
From Time • Sep. 24, 2015
She commands Masha and her duplicitous sister, Varya, to come to Tsarsksoe Selo; and when a tsarina commands, even in this moment of revolution, the daughter of a peasant must obey.
From The Guardian • Jun. 1, 2012
In 625 pages, Massie describes how Sophia, the young daughter of a noble German nobody, became -- after a religious conversion, name change, marriage and murder -- the remarkable tsarina who deserves a big book.
From BusinessWeek • Dec. 1, 2011
Then she bowed to Svetlana, reverent and low, as if she were bowing to the tsarina herself.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
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