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yuri

yuri

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A male name common in Russia and other Slavic countries
  • proper noun
translation icon : Yuri
  • It was the same year when Yuri Gagarin was launched and Kennedy made his famous speech that we should go to the moon.
  • Yuri Gagarin
  • Russian Yuri
  • Yuri says

Now, Yuri, at this point, he's been our translator.

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Examples

  • I think Yuri Milner is, he's a Russian billionaire.

  • I lost my position, Yuri, but not my self-respect.

  • Why does Yuri keep it so cold in here?

  • There, inside that spacecraft, there is a code that is secret even to Yuri himself.

  • The wonders of central planning mean Yuri has to plan the movement of bread and milk.

    Academic text (1991)
  • William Yuri is one of the nicest people I have ever met.

  • We're cutting live to Yuri Leonov, who is about to give NASA's formal statement.

  • William Yuri is one of the nicest people I have ever met.

  • At the main marina, I met Yuri Daniszewski, who works in security.

  • The Soviet news agency has announced that Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin has become the first man in space.

Surface Forms

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Etymology

The name Yuri in Russia comes from the same root as the English name 'George', so you can think of Yuri as the Russian version of 'George', which is why it is a common male name.