Rus
see also: RUS
Pronunciation
RUS
Proper noun
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see also: RUS
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɹuːs/, /ɹʌs/
- A people made up of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century, and whose settlements around Novgorod, Kiev and the Volga and Dnieper gave rise to the Russian principalities. [from 19th c.]
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 504:
- In 860 the Rus’ streamed southwards and laid siege to Constantinople itself.
- 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, page 504:
- The medieval East Slavic state established by these same warrior merchants in the 9th century, whose capital was first in Novgorod and then in Kiev; Kievan Rus.
- Any of the medieval East Slavic principalities ruled by this class, especially Kievan Rus.
- (poetic) The nation of Russia, especially in a transcendent or romantic sense referring to the history and culture of the country.
- Kievan Rus, Kievan Rus', Kyivan Rus, Kyivan Rus'
- Russia, medieval Russia
- Kiev, Kyiv, Kievan state
- Belarus, Belarusian
- Little Russia, Little Russian
- Rusnak, Russniak
- Russia, Russian
- Belarus, Belarusian, Bielorussia, Bielorussian
- Rusyn
- Ruthenia, Ruthene, Ruthenian
- French: Rus', Rous', Ruthénie
- German: Rus, Ruthenien
- Italian: Rutenia
- Portuguese: Ruténia (Portugal), Rutênia (Brazil)
- Russian: Русь
- Spanish: Rutenia
- Portuguese: Ruténia (Portugal), Rutênia (Brazil)
- Russian: Русь
Rus (plural Rus)
- A person from Rus.
- 1959, Boris Dmitrievich Grekov, Kiev Rus, Foreign Languages Pub. House, p 244:
- And if a Rus hits a Greek, or a Greek a Rus with a sword, a spear or any other weapon, he shall pay five litres of silver for his offence, in accordance with Rus law; and if he be unable (insolvent—Author) his property shall be sold for the best price it fetches, including the very clothes . . .
- 1959, Sergeĭ Mikhaĭlovich Solov’ev, History of Russia from the Earliest Times [2000], v 3 (The Shift Northward: Kievan Rus, 1154–1228), p 223:
- If a Varangian claimed money from a Rus, or a Rus from a Varangian, and the debtor refused to pay, the plaintiff, accompanied by twelve witnesses, . . .
- 1973, Donald W. Treadgold, The West in Russia and China: Religious and Secular Thought in Modern Times, v 1 (Russia, 1472–1917), ISBN 0521097258, p xxxv:
- The Church of Kievan Rus knew men well-versed in Scripture and apparently other learning of the time, such as the Metropolitans Ioann II (d. 1089) and Klimetn Smoliatich (twelfth century). The former was Greek, and the latter a Rus.
- 1959, Boris Dmitrievich Grekov, Kiev Rus, Foreign Languages Pub. House, p 244:
RUS
Proper noun
- (US) Initialism of Rural Utilities Service
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