Zinoviev

American  

[zi-noh-vee-ef, -nov-yef, zyi-naw-vyif] / zɪˈnoʊ viˌɛf, -ˈnɒv yɛf, zyɪˈnɔ vyɪf /

noun

1. Grigori Evseevich 1883–1936, Russian Bolshevik leader.

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Zinoviev British  

/ ziˈnɔvjɪf, zɪˈnəʊvɪəf /

noun

1. Grigori Yevseevich, original name Ovsel Gershon Aronov Radomyslsky. 1883–1936, Soviet politician; chairman of the Comintern (1919–26) executed for supposed complicity in the murder of Kirov. He was the supposed author of the forged `Zinoviev letter' urging British Communists to revolt, publication of which helped to defeat (1924) the first Labour Government

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Example Sentences

In a meeting with the ambassador Georgiy Zinoviev, South Korea's vice-foreign minister Kim Hong-kyun denounced the move and warned that Seoul will "respond with all measures available".

From BBC • Oct. 21, 2024

For the work-release program, Epstein traveled not with the sheriff’s deputies assigned to him but with a personal driver, a former mixed-martial-arts fighter from Russia named Igor Zinoviev.

From Washington Post • Jul. 19, 2019

He ordered the Admiralty to stop roughing up U-boat prisoners, saw that the Zinoviev Letter smearing Labour was a forgery, and stopped the government penalising workers who came out in the general strike.

From The Guardian • Nov. 11, 2018

Even as Stalin gains increasing prominence in both the Bolshevik hierarchy and Kotkin’s narrative, he shares the stage with Kamanev, Zinoviev, Bukharin, Lenin and, above all, Trotsky.

From New York Times • Nov. 26, 2014

The Commissars, men and women, came in from their work, took their places, fed and went back to work again, Zinoviev in particular staying only a few minutes.

From Russia in 1919 by Ransome, Arthur