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The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.
Robbie Coltraine

Meaning of "Chekhovian" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF CHEKHOVIAN

Chekhovian  [tʃɛˈkəʊvɪən] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CHEKHOVIAN

noun
adjective
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determiner
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Chekhovian is an adjective.
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WHAT DOES CHEKHOVIAN MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Chekhovian

Anton Chekhov

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramaturge and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics. Chekhov practised as a medical doctor throughout most of his literary career: "Medicine is my lawful wife", he once said, "and literature is my mistress." Chekhov renounced the theatre after the disastrous reception of The Seagull in 1896, but the play was revived to acclaim in 1898 by Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, which subsequently also produced Chekhov's Uncle Vanya and premiered his last two plays, Three Sisters and The Cherry Orchard. These four works present a challenge to the acting ensemble as well as to audiences, because in place of conventional action Chekhov offers a "theatre of mood" and a "submerged life in the text." Chekhov had at first written stories only for financial gain, but as his artistic ambition grew, he made formal innovations which have influenced the evolution of the modern short story.

Definition of Chekhovian in the English dictionary

The definition of Chekhovian in the dictionary is of or relating to Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, the Russian dramatist and short-story writer.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH CHEKHOVIAN


Asimovian
ˌæzɪˈməʊvɪən
avian
ˈeɪvɪən
Batavian
bəˈteɪvɪən
Bolivian
bəˈlɪvɪən
Chekovian
tʃɛˈkəʊvɪən
Harrovian
həˈrəʊvɪən
Jovian
ˈdʒəʊvɪən
Latvian
ˈlætvɪən
Maldivian
mɔːlˈdɪvɪən
Moldavian
mɒlˈdeɪvɪən
Moravian
məˈreɪvɪən
Nabokovian
ˌnæbəˈkəʊvɪən
oblivion
əˈblɪvɪən
Octavian
ɒkˈteɪvɪən
Pavlovian
pævˈləʊvɪən
Peruvian
pəˈruːvɪən
Scandinavian
ˌskændɪˈneɪvɪən
subclavian
sʌbˈkleɪvɪən
Vivian
ˈvɪvɪən
Yugoslavian
ˌjuːɡəʊˈslɑːvɪən

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CHEKHOVIAN

Cheever
chef
chef de mission
chef-d´oeuvre
chefdom
cheffy
Chefoo
chefs-doeuvre
cheilitis
cheiromancer
cheiromancy
Cheiron
Cheju
Cheka
Chekhov
Chekiang
chekist
Chekovian

WORDS THAT END LIKE CHEKHOVIAN

antediluvian
Asian
Australian
Brian
Canadian
chavian
Christian
diluvian
Hungarian
Indian
Indonesian
Italian
Jugoslavian
lesbian
pluvian
postdiluvian
Russian
Servian
Shavian
vesuvian

Synonyms and antonyms of Chekhovian in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «Chekhovian» into 25 languages

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Find out the translation of Chekhovian to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of Chekhovian from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Chekhovian» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

契诃夫
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

Chekhovian
570 millions of speakers

English

Chekhovian
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

Chekhovian
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

Chekhovian
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

чеховский
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

Chekhovian
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

Chekhovian
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

Tchekhov
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Chekhovian
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Tschechow
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

Chekhovian
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

Chekhovian
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Chekhovian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

Chekhov
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

Chekhovian
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चेहोव्हियन
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Chekhovian
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

cechoviano
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Czechowską
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

Чеховський
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

cehovian
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

Chekhovian
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

Chekhovian
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

Chekhovian
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Chekhovian
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Chekhovian

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Chekhovian

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2 QUOTES WITH «CHEKHOVIAN»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word Chekhovian.
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Eve Best
If you're a woman doing classic theater, the big roles are often destroyers. I've played Hedda Gabler, Lady Macbeth, some of the Chekhovian heroines, Electra, Phaedra - they're all powerful women, but they're forces of negativity.
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Robbie Coltraine
The interesting thing about Hain is that he's not a very interesting character. He's not fabulously clever. He's not a great policeman. He's not hugely charismatic. I'd describe him as a kind-of Chekhovian character. He's an ordinary bloke, to whom extraordinary things have happened. Which is quite hard to play, I have to say.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CHEKHOVIAN»

Discover the use of Chekhovian in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Chekhovian and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Chekhovian Intertext: Dialogue With a Classic
The book highlights the intersection of three distinct concepts: cultural memory, cultural myth, and intertextuality.
Lyudmila Parts, 2008
2
Spy
"The humor of [the characters'} hu- morlessness is often Chekhovian" (Richard Schickel, Time). "If you think this sounds like a Chekhov play, you have a point" ( Kathleen Carroll, the Daily News). "The [screen}play is Chekhovian" (Frank Rich,  ...
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The Asian Cinematic Experience
(Cardullo 2008: 33) Based on that definition, a lot of Indian directors are Chekhovian. Ray's fellow Bengali Ritwik Ghatak is very Chekhovian. Is ' Chekhovian', then, a generic sense of Indianness shared by Indian film-makers, particularly those ...
Stephen Teo, 2013
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Adapting Chekhov: The Text and Its Mutations
work and that of Anton Chekhov's first appeared in James Coakley's very perceptive 1973 article, in which he analyzes Philadelphia, Here I Come! in the most profitable and useful terms: those we have come to call Chekhovian ( Coakley 191).
J. Douglas Clayton, Yana Meerzon, 2013
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Mikhail Bulgakov: A Critical Biography
The earlier versions, with their carefully nuanced finale, were more 'Chekhovian' than the blunt 'welcome' to the new life in the text passed for public performance, although the overt theatricality of the finale itself in these earlier versions was ...
Lesley Milne, 1990
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A New Poetics of Chekhov's Plays: Presence Through Absence
OPENING THEBOOK'S OUTER CIRCLE1 1.1 Presence through Absence/ Unrealised Potential: Formulating a Chekhovian Universal Major controversies in Chekhov criticism and scholarship in the past used to focus on such concepts as  ...
Harai Golomb, 2014
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How to Read and Why
SUMMARY OBSERVATIONS It is useful to consider modern short stories as dividing themselves into rival traditions, Chekhovian and Borgesian. Flannery O' Connor, despite surface appearances, is as much in Chekhov's tradition as Italo ...
Harold Bloom, 2001
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The Lee Strasberg Notes
example, in an avant-garde production I saw of The Cherry Orchard, the values were not Chekhovian. The director wanted to make the moment when Lopatkin – the successful vulgar drunk whose father was a serf on the estate – tells the ...
Lee Strasberg, Lola Cohen, 2010
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Mirrors of Our Playing: Paradigms and Presences in Modern Drama
Wilson himself, shy about the obvious and preferring a Chekhovian obliqueness, included those sentences only when urged by Mason to do so (Williams 118). Implicitly, however, the buoyant dialogue everywhere in Fifth of July — especially  ...
Thomas R. Whitaker, 1999
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Directions by Indirections: John Barton of the Royal ...
Despite his Shakespearean reputation, Barton is a Chekhovian at heart. Many of his productions have a Chekhovian quality, particularly in the wistfulness of their endings. Remembering his success with The Three Sisters — which he admits ...
Michael L. Greenwald, 1985

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CHEKHOVIAN»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Chekhovian is used in the context of the following news items.
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Rebecca Lenkiewicz: this government is 'determined to crush the poor'
Hytner programmed two of her plays while he was running the National Theatre – including her second play, the Chekhovian Irish family drama ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
2
Benjamin Markovits's Obama Novel
These include a tape of the two of them in bed, a sex tape that would serve as a sort of Chekhovian gun on the wall if Marny didn't tell us upfront ... «Vulture, Jul 15»
3
REDLANDS: Theatre Festival keeps it fresh with unfamiliar plays
... keeps it fresh with unfamiliar plays. The 44th season includes musicals about Buddy Holly, Chekhovian themes, a corpse and fairy tales. «Press-Enterprise, Jul 15»
4
Dinner Sanctum
... variations disguised as offhand remarks or a stylized approximation of Chekhovian “Russian-ness” melded with plain American language) by ... «Artforum, Jul 15»
5
Goodman Theatre Stages Chekhovian Love Letter in Vanya and …
The plot centers on three 50-something siblings, all named for Chekhovian characters. "It's been our cross to bear, that our parents gave us ... «Gapers Block, Jul 15»
6
Masha Gessen: I can't abide conspiracy theories
Gessen's working characterisation of Russia combines John le Carre-esque espionage, Chekhovian tragedy and straight vaudeville: as more ... «gulfnews.com, Jun 15»
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Snow White and the Half-Naked Man
To Sonia's Chekhovian lament, “We long for what the world cannot give. We are in our twilight years, and we realize we have never lived,” ... «Fort Worth Weekly, Jun 15»
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SCOTTISH PLAY SCOTT Chekhovian Durang
Out director Steve Scott says that audiences don't need to have an extensive knowledge of Anton Chekhov's plays to enjoy the comedy Vanya ... «Windy City Times, Jun 15»
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Frances de la Tour: five best moments
... day-glo battiness of Tim Burton's Lewis Carroll adaption, De la Tour's Chekhovian turn as Aunt Imogene felt rooted in real-world tragicomedy. «The Guardian, Jun 15»
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4x4 Four Minutes, Four Questions Lee Blessing & Mark Brown
Culturally we've internalized a Chekhovian "universe" (just as we have a Shakespearean universe) which has come to mean a great deal to us. «NWAOnline, Jun 15»

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