Soviet

Proper noun

 * 1)  Any of the governing workers' councils in the Soviet Union.

Adjective

 * 1)  Pertaining to the Soviet Union or its constituent republics.
 * 2) Supporting or representing the Soviet Union or Sovietism; Sovietist.
 * 3) * 1998, David D. Laitin, Identity in Formation: The Russian-Speaking Populations in the Near Abroad, page 9
 * He remained more Soviet than his parents and often accused Gorbachev of having destroyed the Soviet Union on behalf of US intelligence.
 * 1) * 2001, Robert G. Moeller, War Stories: The Search for a Usable Past in the Federal Republic of Germany, page 113
 * Only in the GDR were the returning POWs presumed guilty; there East Germans, attempting to be "more Soviet than the Soviets," [....]
 * 1) * 2005, Gennadiĭ Ėstraĭkh, In Harness: Yiddish Writers' Romance with Communism, page 61
 * It would also be incorrect to creat a "scale of Sovietism", arguing, say, that Gildin was more Soviet than Litvakov, or that Litvakov was more Soviet than Dobrushin. Essentially, they were equally Soviet, even if they saw their Sovietism rather differently: [....]

Thesaurus
British Cabinet, Sanhedrin, US Cabinet, advisory body, assembly, association, bench, bicameral legislature, board, board of aldermen, body of advisers, borough council, brain trust, cabinet, camarilla, chamber, chamber of deputies, city board, city council, commission, common council, conference, congress, consultative assembly, council, council fire, council of ministers, council of state, council of war, county council, court, deliberative assembly, diet, directory, divan, federal assembly, general assembly, house of assembly, junta, kitchen cabinet, legislative assembly, legislative body, legislative chamber, legislature, lower chamber, lower house, national assembly, parish council, parliament, privy council, provincial legislature, provincial parliament, representative town meeting, staff, state assembly, state legislature, syndicate, synod, town meeting, tribunal, unicameral legislature, upper chamber, upper house

Etymology
From совет:, советский:

Adjective

 * Arabic: سوفياتي
 * Armenian:
 * Belarusian: савецкі
 * Bulgarian: съветски
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Croatian: sovjetski
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Hindi: सोवियत
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:, ,


 * Korean: 소비에트
 * Latvian: padomju-
 * Manx: Soveidjagh
 * Pashto:
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: совјетски, sovjetski
 * Slovak: sovietsky
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili: Kisovyeti
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:
 * Thai: โซเวียต
 * Ukrainian: радянський
 * Vietnamese: xô viết,, xô-viết
 * Yiddish: סאָוועטיש


 * Finnish:, neuvostohenkinen, , neuvostolainen