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Lermontov

Lermontov

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A Russian poet and writer from the 1800s known for Romantic poems and the novel A Hero of Our Time
  • proper noun
: Lermontov
  • After several lively hours, I left the house with a borrowed leather-bound copy of Lermontov's poems.
  • Mikhail Lermontov
  • Pushkin and Lermontov
  • Lermontov and Leo Tolstoy

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Synonyms

Mikhail Lermontov
vsLermontov
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A Russian poet and writer from the 1800s who wrote about the Caucasus

refers to the same person but uses a shorter, familiar name form

Surface Forms

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Etymology

Lermontov is a Russian family name. It likely joins a French-root mont meaning 'mountain' with the Russian ending -ov meaning 'of' or 'belonging to', so you can remember it as 'of the mountain', which is why it is used as his family name.