Meaning & use
muzhik
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A Russian peasant, especially as the term was used before the 1917 revolution.
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Tolstoy's novels often depict the hardship and resilience of the Russian muzhik.
The muzhiks worked the landowner's fields under conditions that changed little for generations.
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A loanword from Russian, also spelled "moujik"; it appears frequently in English translations of 19th-century Russian literature.
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