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PRONUNCIATION OF MATRIOSHKA

matrioshka  [ˌmætrɪˈɒʃkə] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF MATRIOSHKA

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Matrioshka is a noun.
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WHAT DOES MATRIOSHKA MEAN IN ENGLISH?

matrioshka

Matryoshka doll

A matryoshka doll (Russian: матрёшка, IPA: ( listen), matrëška), also known as Russian nesting doll, refers to a set of wooden dolls of decreasing size placed one inside the other. The first Russian nested doll set was carved in 1890 by Vasily Zvyozdochkin from a design by Sergey Malyutin, who was a folk crafts painter at Abramtsevo. Traditionally the outer layer is a woman, dressed in a sarafan, a long and shapeless traditional Russian peasant jumper dress. The figures inside may be of either gender; the smallest, innermost doll is typically a baby turned from a single piece of wood. Much of the artistry is in the painting of each doll, which can be very elaborate. The dolls often follow a theme; the themes vary, from fairy tale characters to Soviet leaders.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH MATRIOSHKA


babushka
bəˈbuːʃkə
britschka
ˈbrɪtʃkə
chachka
ˈtʃɑːtʃkə
kishke
ˈkɪʃkə
Lashkar
ˈlʌʃkə
matroyshka
ˌmætrɪˈɒʃkə
matryoshka
ˌmætrɪˈɒʃkə
pashka
ˈpæʃkə
tchotchke
ˈtʃɑːtʃkə

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE MATRIOSHKA

matricular
matriculate
matriculation
matriculator
matriculatory
matrifocal
matrifocality
matrilineal
matrilineally
matriliny
matrilocal
matrilocality
matrilocally
matrimonial
matrimonially
matrimonies
matrimony
matrimony vine
matrix
matrix printer

WORDS THAT END LIKE MATRIOSHKA

aka
Alaska
Bangka
Banka
Dhaka
eureka
Hrvatska
ka
kaka
Karnataka
Kokoschka
marka
Nebraska
Osaka
polka
Polska
ska
Sri Lanka
taka
vodka

Synonyms and antonyms of matrioshka in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «matrioshka» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF MATRIOSHKA

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Translator English - Chinese

matrioshka
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

matrioshka
570 millions of speakers

English

matrioshka
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

matrioshka
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

matrioshka
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

матрешка
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

matrioshka
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

matrioshka
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

matriochka
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Matrioshka
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Matrjoschka
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

マトリョーシカ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

matrioshka
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Matrioshka
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

matrioshka
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

matrioshka
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

मातृशका
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Matrioshka
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

matrioshka
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Matrioszka
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

матрьошка
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

Matrioshka
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

matrioshka
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

matrioshka
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

matrioshka
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

Matrioshka
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of matrioshka

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «MATRIOSHKA»

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

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MATRIOSHKA»

Discover the use of matrioshka in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to matrioshka and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Sasha's Matrioshka Dolls
Sasha's grandfather makes her a tiny wooden doll, but the mice are able to carry it off, so he makes another slightly larger doll to hold the tiny one, and then another, and another.
Jana Dillon, 2003
2
Mother Russia: The Feminine Myth in Russian Culture
A number of legends are associated with the Matrioshka. She is linked with the ancient Ugrian goddess Jumala of the Urals, who was thought to contain all things within her body. The Vikings, merchant- warriors and probable founders of the ...
Joanna Hubbs, 1993
3
The Territorial Management of Ethnic Conflict
On'matrioshka nationalism' seeRay Taras,'Conclusion: Making Sense of Matrioshka Nationalism', inIan Bremmer and Ray Taras (eds.), Nations and Politics in the Soviet Successor States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993) ...
John Coakley, 2004
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Russian Magic: Living Folk Traditions of an Enchanted Landscape
If there is no direct historical link between today's nesting doll and the mother goddess, do we have a right to claim that the Matrioshka is a contemporary representation of her form? I suggest that we do; if a myth has enough power and  ...
Cherry Gilchrist, 2009
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Teaching Russian Studies
Lesson. 3: MATRIOSHKA. DOLLS. Introduction These appealing and decorative nesting dolls seem to captivate children's imaginations. The brightly hand- painted, delicate wooden shapes and the varying sizes of the dolls have an aesthetic ...
Patricia Winpenny, Katherine Weeks Cadwell, Louise Cadwell, 2004
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World Cultures Through Art Activities
The first matrioshka was made in the late nineteenth century; the most famous ones today come from Polkhov-Maldeon in Gorky. There are many legends about the origin of the doll. In one legend, the matrloshka comes from a goddess named ...
DINDY ROBINSON, 1996
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Tool Kits in Regional Science: Theory, Models, and Estimation
The feedback loops on the inner hierarchical level of economic activities should be placed into the loops of the higher levels in the form of the Matrioshka doll ( Russian doll within doll, within doll...) in which successively smaller dolls of exactly ...
Michael Sonis, Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, 2009
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The Innovation Algorithm: TRIZ, Systematic Innovation and ...
Nesting (Matrioshka) a. One object is placed inside another. That object is placed inside a third one, and so on.... b. An object passes through a cavity in another object. Example 1: Author's Certificate #186,781 An ultrasonic wave concentrator  ...
Genrikh Saulovich Alʹtshuller, Lev Shulyak, Steven Rodman, 1999
9
Caviar with Rum: Cuba-USSR and the Post-Soviet Experience
The word“Matrioshka,”referring tothe nesting dolls that entered Russianhandicrafts in thelate nineteenth centuryand that,during the Soviet period ,were integratedintoCubanmaterial culture,notonly forms part ofmany of Martínez Shvietsova's ...
Jacqueline Loss, José Manuel Prieto, 2012
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Social and Demographic Accounting
The Matrioshka principle' The pioneering work of Pyatt and Round (1979), in developing methods for decomposing the structure of complex social accounting systems, has provided possibilities for uncovering the fine structure of these ...
Geoffrey J. D. Hewings, Moss Madden, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MATRIOSHKA»

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Russian Delicatessen, Luna Blue hit by cars in separate 14 Street …
The car hit the Matrioshka Russian Delicatessen. Fire, police and EMS all responded. The driver in his early 30s was taken to hospital in stable ... «CBC.ca, Jul 15»
2
Transhumanism – The Final Religion?
Transhumanists refer to massive structures of planetary size (Jupiter Brains) or larger (Matrioshka Brains) that surround the sun and utilize most ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Jul 15»
3
Fermi Paradox, Doomsday Argument, Simulation Hypothesis—is our …
... no Dyson Spheres or their associated infra-red signatures, no Matrioshka Brains and a local solar system that appears untouched. A paradox ... «Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Jun 15»
4
On This Date
The South Dakota ballooning team of Jacques Soukup and Kirk Thomas flew “Matrioshka,” their newest special-shaped hot air balloon over ... «Yankton Daily Press, Jun 15»
5
Tbilisi Flood Damage Exceeds GEL 100 Million Featured
Restaurant Matrioshka, located on Hero Square, at the epicentre of the disaster, has been particularly damaged. Both storeys of the restaurant ... «The FINANCIAL, Jun 15»
6
Mercedes GLC (2015) in pictures: Merc's GLK successor finally …
The exterior design is much less boxy than the 2008 GLK; design chief Gorden Wagener told CAR his aim was to avoid matrioshka doll styling ... «CAR Magazine, Jun 15»
7
How to Destroy the Galaxy in 4 Easy Steps
Once the probes are out there, Stross says, they would cannibalize entire planets to create Matrioshka brains, which are sort of like Dyson ... «Popular Mechanics, May 15»
8
Destroy all life in the galaxy with this one weird trick
Second, program the probe to hunt out likely solar systems with a good bit of planetary mass, and when it gets there, to build a Matrioshka brain ... «The Week Magazine, May 15»
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A Scan Of 100000 Galaxies Shows No Sign Of Alien Mega …
This could be accomplished by ETIs in any number of ways, including vast complexes of Dyson spheres and the establishment of Matrioshka ... «io9, Apr 15»
10
Is EU Policy in Central Asia Correct?
Each country was like a Matrioshka specially Kazakhstan, you know, with one hundred foreign nationalities. Mainly Kazakhs, but also ... «Sputnik International, Apr 15»

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