Russophonen.adj.

Brit.

/ˈrʌsə(ʊ)fəʊn/, U.S.

/ˈrəsəˌfoʊn/

Forms: also with lower-case initial.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Russo- comb. form, -phone comb. form.

Etymology: < Russo- comb. form + -phone comb. form. With the use as noun compare French russophone (1883 or earlier).

A. n.

A Russian-speaking person.

ΚΠ

1899 M. C. Fraser Custom of Country 299 I am something of a Russophone myself.

1980 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 28 681 Tumanov has edited his volume for Russophones so that they can read what their Eastern European colleagues are doing.

2003 K. O'Connor Hist. Baltic States viii. 199 The population decline in each of the Baltic states is partly due to the outmigration of tens of thousands of Russophones.

B. adj.

Russian-speaking.

ΚΠ

1929 W. C. Emhardt Relig. Soviet Russia p. vii The original pamphlet was in Russian, and written chiefly for Russophone readers, who were fully conversant with the details of events out of which the ‘Living Church’ grew.

1953 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 15 Aug. 14/3 The book's Russophone explanation of ‘why they behave like Russians’ is a dizzying hodge-podge of a few historical facts..and..the national and family predilections of the author's father.

2008 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 23/2 Lithuania..has a smaller russophone population than its Baltic partners.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	russophone
释义	Russophonen.adj. Brit. /ˈrʌsə(ʊ)fəʊn/, U.S. /ˈrəsəˌfoʊn/ Forms: also with lower-case initial. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: Russo- comb. form, -phone comb. form. Etymology: < Russo- comb. form + -phone comb. form. With the use as noun compare French russophone (1883 or earlier). A. n. A Russian-speaking person. ΚΠ 1899 M. C. Fraser Custom of Country 299 I am something of a Russophone myself. 1980 Amer. Jrnl. Compar. Law 28 681 Tumanov has edited his volume for Russophones so that they can read what their Eastern European colleagues are doing. 2003 K. O'Connor Hist. Baltic States viii. 199 The population decline in each of the Baltic states is partly due to the outmigration of tens of thousands of Russophones. B. adj. Russian-speaking. ΚΠ 1929 W. C. Emhardt Relig. Soviet Russia p. vii The original pamphlet was in Russian, and written chiefly for Russophone readers, who were fully conversant with the details of events out of which the ‘Living Church’ grew. 1953 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 15 Aug. 14/3 The book's Russophone explanation of ‘why they behave like Russians’ is a dizzying hodge-podge of a few historical facts..and..the national and family predilections of the author's father. 2008 Daily Tel. 15 Aug. 23/2 Lithuania..has a smaller russophone population than its Baltic partners. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1899
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