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Pasternak

Pasternak

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Russian writer best known for the novel Doctor Zhivago
  • proper noun
  • /ˈpæs.tər.næk/
: Pasternak
  • Boris Pasternak.
  • Boris Pasternak
  • Pasternak and Solzhenitsyn

Examples

  • Boris Pasternak wrote the famous novel Doctor Zhivago, which explores the impact of the Russian Revolution.

  • In her essays, Pomorska considers the works of Pushkin, Tolstoy, Pasternak, Chekhov, and Solzhenitsyn.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Boris Pasternak.

  • Elizabeth Taylor starred in A Date With Judy... ...one of the first in a new wave of teenage musicals... ...most of them produced by Joe Pasternak.

  • Many readers admire Boris Pasternak for his poetic style and deep philosophical themes.

  • The Nobel Prize awarded to Boris Pasternak in 1958 was a significant moment in literary history.

Synonyms

Boris Pasternak
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A Russian writer and poet best known for the novel Doctor Zhivago

gives the same facts but in a shorter name form

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Pasternak comes from a Slavic word pasternak that means 'parsnip'. It probably began as a name for someone who grew or sold parsnips, which is why today it is a family name you know from the writer Boris Pasternak.