Definition of Cheremis

1. Noun. A member of a rural Finnish people living in eastern Russia.

Exact synonyms: Cheremiss, Mari
Group relationships: Russia, Russian Soviet Federated Socialist Republic, Soviet Russia
Generic synonyms: Russian

2. Noun. The Finnic language spoken by the Cheremis.
Exact synonyms: Cheremiss, Mari
Generic synonyms: Volgaic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cheremis

Chennai
Chenopodiales
Chenopodium album
Chenopodium ambrosioides
Chenopodium bonus-henricus
Chenopodium botrys
Chenopodium capitatum
Chenopodium glaucum
Chenopodium hybridum
Chenopodium murale
Chenopodium rubrum
Chenoua
Cher
Cherbourg
Cheremis (current term)
Cheremiss
Cherenkov effect
Cherenkov radiation
Cherepovets
Cheri
Cherkasy
Cherkess Autonomous Oblast
Cherkessk
Chermidae
Chernihiv
Chernivtsi
Chernobyl
Chernobyls
Cherokee

Literary usage of Cheremis

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

1. Publications by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1890)
"But these instances hardly explain marriage with capture. Georgi (Descrip., i, 71) describes the capture of girls among the Cheremis and ..."

2. Folklore by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1890)
"But these instances hardly explain marriage with capture. Georgi {Descrip., \, 71) describes the capture of girls among the Cheremis and ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"... Hungarian, as well as Lappish, Finnish, Cheremis, Mordvin, and Samojed, belongs to the Ural group of languages, and further, together with Turkish and ..."

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