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单词 boyar
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Definition of boyar in English:

boyar

noun ˈbɔɪɑːbəʊˈjɑːboʊˈjɑr
historical
  • A member of the old aristocracy in Russia, next in rank to a prince.

    〈史〉波雅尔(沙俄一贵族阶层成员,地位仅次于王公)

    as modifier the rise of the boyar class
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But large landowners, the boyar aristocracy, retained 60 per cent of the land while 30 per cent of the peasants' plots were under two hectares in size.
    • Easter Sunday of 1459, Vlad invited all of the aristocrats, called boyars, who had played a role in his father's death, to a feast.
    • Thus, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were years of struggle to keep Ukrainian lands from Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania, as well as free of the boyars or noblemen who tried to take control.
    • From the 15th to the 17th centuries Muscovite boyars formed a closed aristocratic class drawn from about 200 families.
    • He ruled in an increasingly arbitrary and absolutist fashion, brutalizing the aristocratic boyars in a decade-long period of terror known as the oprichnina.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Russian boyarin 'grandee'.

Definition of boyar in US English:

boyar

nounboʊˈjɑrbōˈyär
historical
  • A member of the old aristocracy in Russia, next in rank to a prince.

    〈史〉波雅尔(沙俄一贵族阶层成员,地位仅次于王公)

    as modifier the rise of the boyar class
    Example sentencesExamples
    • But large landowners, the boyar aristocracy, retained 60 per cent of the land while 30 per cent of the peasants' plots were under two hectares in size.
    • Thus, the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries were years of struggle to keep Ukrainian lands from Poland, Hungary, and Lithuania, as well as free of the boyars or noblemen who tried to take control.
    • He ruled in an increasingly arbitrary and absolutist fashion, brutalizing the aristocratic boyars in a decade-long period of terror known as the oprichnina.
    • From the 15th to the 17th centuries Muscovite boyars formed a closed aristocratic class drawn from about 200 families.
    • Easter Sunday of 1459, Vlad invited all of the aristocrats, called boyars, who had played a role in his father's death, to a feast.

Origin

Late 16th century: from Russian boyarin ‘grandee’.

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