Category:Russian terms by usage

Russian terms categorized by the manner and context in which they are used by speakers.

• Category:Russian archaic terms: Russian terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Russian autological terms: Russian terms that possess the property they themselves describe.
• Category:Russian censored spellings: Russian spellings where some characters have been changed in an effort to reduce the shock value of the original term.
• Category:Russian childish terms: Russian terms that are typically only used by, or to, children.
• Category:Russian colloquialisms: Russian terms that are likely to be used primarily in casual conversation rather than in more formal written works, speeches, and discourse.
• Category:Russian dated terms: Russian terms that are no longer fashionable, thus are anachronistic.
• Category:Russian derogatory terms: Russian terms that are intended to disparage, demean, insult or offend.
• Category:Russian dialectal terms: Russian terms that are not used in standard language but only in dialects.
• Category:Russian ecclesiastical terms: Russian terms used only by religious figures.
• Category:Russian endearing terms: Russian terms that are used to show affection or endearment to another person.
• Category:Russian expressive terms: Russian terms with additional expressive content compared with the basic meaning of the term.
• Category:Russian familiar terms: Russian terms whose use is typically to contexts of friendly intimacy.
• Category:Russian folk poetic terms: Russian terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of oral or folk poetry.
• Category:Russian formal terms: Russian terms whose use is typically restricted to polite, ceremonious, non-casual contexts.
• Category:Russian gender-neutral terms: Russian terms that are applicable to all people, independent of gender.
• Category:Russian higher register terms: Russian terms belonging to a higher linguistic register, such as literary terms; such terms are somewhat less common or known.
• Category:Russian historical terms: Russian terms that refer to obsolete things or concepts.
• Category:Russian humorous terms: Russian terms that are humorous, amusing or joking.
• Category:Russian informal terms: Russian terms whose use is typically restricted to casual, non‐ceremonious conversations.
• Category:Russian journalistic terms: Russian terms that are used especially in journalistic language, i.e. in newspapers and magazines.
• Category:Russian men's speech terms: Russian terms and forms used in men's speech.
• Category:Russian nonstandard terms: Russian terms that are considered improper, incorrect or commonly misused.
• Category:Russian obsolete terms: Russian terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Russian offensive terms: Russian terms that are typically considered to offend people.
• Category:Russian officialese terms: Russian terms that are chiefly used by official sources, and are often bureaucratic-sounding.
• Category:Russian placeholder terms: Russian terms used to refer to items for which one does not know or cannot recall the name, or is unable to or does not care to specify precisely.
• Category:Russian poetic terms: Russian terms whose usage is typically restricted to works of poetry.
• Category:Russian proscribed terms: Russian terms whose usage is proscribed; thus, they are considered wrong according to prescriptive sources.
• Category:Russian puristic terms: Russian terms adopted for linguistic purism.
• Category:Russian rare terms: Russian terms that are rare in general use, for whatever reason.
• Category:Russian self-deprecatory terms: Russian self-deprecatory terms.
• Category:Russian short forms: Russian terms that are short forms of other terms, often used informally.
• Category:Russian slang: Russian colloquial terms that are typically used to mark membership in a cultural subgroup.
• Category:Russian solemn terms: Russian terms that are used to instill a sense of somberness.
• Category:Russian superseded forms: Russian forms that have been superseded by other forms due to changes in spelling conventions.
• Category:Russian technical terms: Russian terms that are usually or exclusively used in technical/scientific writing.
• Category:Russian terms of address: Russian terms used to refer to another person.
• Category:Russian terms with archaic senses: Russian terms that are no longer in general use but still encountered in older literature and still sometimes used for special effect.
• Category:Russian terms with historical senses: Russian terms with senses that refer to things or concepts mainly known for their historical value.
• Category:Russian terms with obsolete senses: Russian terms that are no longer in current use, but found in older texts.
• Category:Russian terms with rare senses: Russian rarely used terms or terms with rarely used senses.
• Category:Russian terms with transferred senses: Russian terms with transferred senses.
• Category:Russian terms with uncertain meaning: Russian terms whose meaning is unknown or disputed.
• Category:Russian terms with uncommon senses: Russian uncommonly used terms or terms with uncommonly used senses.
• Category:Russian trademarks: Russian terms that identify legal entities, their products and services, by means of legal protection — to some extent, in a number of jurisdictions — against unauthorized use of the terms.
• Category:Russian uncommon terms: Russian uncommonly used terms.
• Category:Russian vulgarities: Russian terms whose tone (rather than the meaning) is offensive to polite company.
• Category:Russian women's speech terms: Russian terms and forms used in women's speech.