«Mariinsky», Victory Day, «Aurora», «deuce» — these and similar terms are clear to a native Russian speaker without translation.
«Mariinsky», Victory Day, «Aurora», «deuce» — these and similar terms are clear to a native Russian speaker without translation. However, each of these words, originally describing a specific reality, but later overgrown with metaphorical and symbolic meanings, has its own — sometimes very interesting and original — history. «Big Linguistic Dictionary», prepared by the State Institute of the Russian Language. A.S. Pushkin, is an attempt, unique in scale, to compile a universal reference book that allows you to find out the origin of familiar concepts and trace the ways of turning ordinary words into cultural symbols of national significance.
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