ликбез
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Russian
Etymology
Acronym of ликвида́ция безгра́мотности (likvidácija bezgrámotnosti).
Pronunciation
Noun
ликбе́з • (likbéz) m inan (genitive ликбе́за, nominative plural ликбе́зы, genitive plural ликбе́зов)
- (historical, Soviet Union) Likbez (campaign of eradication of illiteracy in Soviet Russia and to Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s)
- (colloquial) grounding (act of giving a basic education in a particular subject)
Declension
Declension of ликбе́з (inan masc-form hard-stem accent-a)
Derived terms
adjectives
- ликбе́зный (likbéznyj)
- ликбе́зовский (likbézovskij)
noun
- ликбе́зник (likbéznik)
References
- Shansky, N. M., Zhuravlyov, A. F., editors (1999), “ликбез”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), number 9 (Л), Moscow: Moscow University Press, →ISBN Invalid ISBN, page 99
Further reading
- ликбез in Большой толковый словарь, editor-in-chief С. А. Кузнецов – hosted at gramota.ru