"Chekist" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Forms: Chekists [plural]
Etymology: From Russian чеки́ст (čekíst) from Чека́ (Čeká) + -ист (-ist). Etymology templates: {{bor|en|ru|чеки́ст}} Russian чеки́ст (čekíst), {{af|ru|Чека́|-ист|nocat=1}} Чека́ (Čeká) + -ист (-ist) Head templates: {{en-noun}} Chekist (plural Chekists)
  1. (historical) An agent of the Cheka, the Soviet Russian secret police from 1917 to 1922, replacing the Okhrana secret police of Tsarist Russia; succeeded by the OGPU and NKVD. Tags: historical Translations (agent of the Cheka): չեկիստ (čʻekist) (Armenian), чэкі́ст (čekíst) [masculine] (Belarusian), чэкі́стка (čekístka) [feminine] (Belarusian), čekista [animate, masculine] (Czech), čekistka [feminine] (Czech), tšekist (Estonian), tšekisti (Finnish), tchékiste [feminine, masculine] (French), ჩეკისტი (čeḳisṭi) (Georgian), Tschekist [masculine] (German), Tschekistin [feminine] (German), cekista [feminine, masculine] (Italian), czekista [masculine] (Polish), czekistka [feminine] (Polish), tchekista [feminine, masculine] (Portuguese), чеки́ст (čekíst) [masculine] (Russian), чеки́стка (čekístka) [feminine] (Russian), čekist [masculine] (Slovak), čekistka [feminine] (Slovak), chequista [feminine, masculine] (Spanish), чекі́ст (čekíst) [masculine] (Ukrainian), чекі́стка (čekístka) [feminine] (Ukrainian), טשעקיסט (tshekist) [masculine] (Yiddish)
    Sense id: en-Chekist-en-noun-b72tfgAL Disambiguation of 'agent of the Cheka': 90 10
  2. (by extension, metonymically) A national security official of the KGB, FSB or any of the state security intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union or Russian Federation. Tags: broadly, metonymically Categories (topical): Communism, Law enforcement
    Sense id: en-Chekist-en-noun-GVVUty6u Disambiguation of Communism: 37 63 Disambiguation of Law enforcement: 33 67 Categories (other): English metonyms, English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 33 67 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 44 56
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: Tchekist

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