zemstvoとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From Russian зе́мство (zémstvo), from земля́ (zemljá, “land, country”).

発音

• (英国発音) enPR: zĕmsʹtvo, IPA^(key): /ˈzɛmstvəʊ/

名詞

zemstvo (複数形 zemstvos または zemstva)

1. (now historical) A Russian district or provincial council, or elective local-governmental administrative division, founded in 1864 by Tsar Alexander the Liberator.
   • 1996, Orlando Figes, A People's Tragedy, Folio Society, published 2013, page 52:

     Two of Alexander III's counter-reforms, in 1890 and 1892, greatly increased the governors' powers over the zemstvos and municipal bodies.

派生語

• zemstvoist

参照

• “‖zemstvo” listed in the Oxford English Dictionary [2^nd Ed.; 1989]