Definition of Gulag

1. Noun. A Russian prison camp for political prisoners.


Definition of Gulag

1. Noun. A prison camp. ¹

2. Noun. A generic name for the system of all Soviet prison camps. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Gulag

1. a forced-labor camp [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gulag

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gulag (current term)
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Literary usage of Gulag

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

1. The Social Organization and the Secret Societies of the Kwakiutl Indians by Franz Boas, George Hunt (1897)
"Next Lfi'gulag-ilis. the chief of the painting, arose and said: To'qoa malis, ... told me by my'grandfather, the first Lfi'gulag-ilis was the chief of tbr ..."

2. Okhrana: The Paris Operations of the Russian Imperial Police by Ben B. Fischer (1999)
"... by contrast, Solzhenitsyn, like other dissidents, simply disappeared into the harsh internal exile system that he later dubbed the gulag Archipelago. ..."

3. Chaparral Serendipity: Things From Under The Bushes by Gyeorgos Ceres Hatonn (1993)
"The gulag Death Camps were devised by a Turkish Jew, Naftaly Frenkel (see Solzhenitsyn, gulag Archipelago, vol.!). There has never been a single movie on TV ..."

4. United States-China Trade Relations and the Possible Accession of China to edited by Philip Crane (2001)
"They have gulag camps, slave labor camps. People in this room are wearing clothing made in gulag camps that are being exported to the US They are taking ..."

5. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1870)
"But, had this been the meaning, they could hardly fail to have been spoken of by the regular name gulag. Who then were the Thegns spoken of? ..."

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