Definition of Chekhov

1. Noun. Russian dramatist whose plays are concerned with the difficulty of communication between people (1860-1904).


Lexicographical Neighbors of Chekhov

Cheetos
Cheever
Chehalem berries
Chehalem berry
Chehalem blackberry
Cheilanthes
Cheilanthes alabamensis
Cheilanthes eatonii
Cheilanthes gracillima
Cheilanthes lanosa
Cheiranthus
Cheiranthus allionii
Cheiranthus asperus
Cheiranthus cheiri
Cheka
Chekhov
Chekhov's gun
Chekhovian
Chekov
Chelicerata
Chelidonium
Chelidonium majus
Chelifer
Chelifer cancroides
Chelm
Chelone
Chelone glabra
Chelonethida

Literary usage of Chekhov

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Russian Short Stories by Harry Christian Schweikert (1919)
"chekhov (1861-1904) ^ As a young man Chekov was inclined to be satirically j humorous, but he soon changed his point of view to one of I typical Russian ..."

2. Essays on Russian Novelists by William Lyon Phelps (1917)
"vn chekhov ANTON PAVLOVICH chekhov, like Pushkin, ... chekhov was a man of the South, being born at Taganrog, a seaport on a gulf of the ..."

3. Russia in 1919 by Arthur Ransome (1919)
"A PLAY OF chekhov February 2ist. I SAW chekhov's "Uncle Vanya" acted by the cast of the Art Theatre in the First Studio. This is a little theatre holding ..."

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