How do you use the word "russia" in a sentence?

Q: How do you use the word "russia" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "russia": Our company is planning to build a new chemical plant in Russia. Russia is facing great financial difficulties.

Russia Meaning

/ˈɹʌʃə/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

proper nounA country spanning eastern Europe and northern Asia.

nameA transcontinental country in Eastern Europe and North Asia. Official name: Russian Federation. Capital and largest city: Moscow. It borders the Pacific and Arctic Oceans and the Baltic, Black, and Caspian Seas. Part of the Soviet Union from 1917 through 1991.

Sentence Examples

Our company is planning to build a new chemical plant in Russia.

Russia is facing great financial difficulties.

Russia sold 12 million tons of grain abroad last year.

CEFR Practice Quiz

The largest country in the world by land area is ____, spanning Europe and Asia.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

The Trans-Siberian Railway crosses the vast expanse of ____ from Moscow to Vladivostok.

Word Origin & History

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *rōþruz? Old East Norse *rōþs-bor. Proto-Finnic *rooccibor. Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ)bor. New Latin Russiabor. English Russia From Medieval Latin Russia, from Old East Slavic Русь (Rusĭ) (whence Arabic رُوس (rūs) and Byzantine Greek Ῥῶς (Rhôs)), which originally referred to a group of Varangians who established themselves near Kiev in the 9th century and ruled Kievan Rus; probably from Proto-Finnic *roocci, from Old East Norse *roþs- (“related to rowing”); related to Old Norse Roþrslandi (“the land of rowing”), an older name of Roslagen, where the Finns first encountered the Swedes. Ultimately from Old Norse róðr (“steering oar”), from Proto-Germanic *rōþrą (“rudder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“to row”). By surface analysis, Russ + -ia. First attested in c. 1390s. Doublet of Rossiya.

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"The next stop that we make will be England / Tell all the folks in Russia, and China, too / Don't you know that it's time to get on board? / And let this train keep on riding, riding on through" — 1972, The O'Jays, “Love Train”, in Back Stabbers:

"“Revoking PNTR for Russia is going to make it harder for Russia to do business with the United States and doing it in unison with other nations that make up half of the global economy will be another crushing blow to the Russian economy that’s already suffering very badly from our sanctions,” Biden said." — 2022 March 10, Kaitlan Collins, Manu Raju, Kate Sullivan, MJ Lee and John Harwood, “Biden calls for suspending normal trade relations with Russia and will ban imports of vodka and seafood”, in CNN:

"Russia is unable to honor its arms delivery commitments to India because of the war in Ukraine, the Indian Air Force (IAF) said, placing a potential strain on New Delhi’s relationship with its largest defense supplier as Moscow attempts to ramp up weapons production." — 2023 March 24, Rhea Mogul, “Russia can’t meet India arms deliveries due to Ukraine war, Indian Air Force says”, in CNN:

"Ukraine (“frontier”), the name formerly given to a district of European Russia, now comprising the governments of Kharkov, Kiev, Podolia and Poltava." — 1911, “Ukraine”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:

"Or rather if I be attaining a better autocratship than that of the Emperor of all the Russias — the empire over self." — 1842, George Eliot, Selections from George Eliot's letters, Letter to Cara Bray, page 24:

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