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/ˈɹʌʃ(ə)n/ noun C1
  1. A citizen or national of Russia. (countable)
  2. A member of the predominant ethnic group of Russia; an ethnic Russian. (countable)
  3. The Russian language. (uncountable)
  4. A domestic cat breed. (countable, uncountable)
  5. A cat of this breed. (countable, uncountable)
  6. Someone from or around Brandon Estate (also known as Moscow). (countable, slang, uncountable)
  7. A gun (due to some preference for Russian arms with gang members). (countable, slang, uncountable)
  8. A kind of sausage derived from Russian kolbasa. (countable, uncountable)

Plural Russians

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Russian leather card-case, with cards of Enoch J.
A Study in Scarlet, p. 31 · B2
Here’s the record of the Tarleton murders, and the case of Vamberry, the wine merchant, and the adventure of the old Russian woman, and the singular affair of the aluminium crutch, as well as a full account of Ricoletti of the club-foot, and his abominable wife.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 3 · B2
The French or the Russian embassy would pay an immense sum to learn the contents of these papers.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 61 · B2
There is the French ambassador, there is the Russian, there is whoever might sell it to either of these, and there is Lord Holdhurst.”
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 76 · B2

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Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.