See Menshevik on Wiktionary
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "member of a minority faction of the Russian revolutionary movement",
"tags": [
"common-gender"
],
"word": "mensjevik"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "menšovýk",
"sense": "member of a minority faction of the Russian revolutionary movement",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "меншови́к"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "member of a minority faction of the Russian revolutionary movement",
"word": "Men-sê-vích"
},
{
"code": "vi",
"lang": "Vietnamese",
"sense": "member of a minority faction of the Russian revolutionary movement",
"word": "men-sê-vích"
}
],
"word": "Menshevik"
}
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