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belarus

UK/ˈbɛləɹuːs/US/ˌbɛləˈɹus/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Belarus is the flat landlocked country of Minsk, between Poland and Russia. The border with Belarus.

A great deal of it is marsh and forest, including the last old lowland forest in Europe. Belarus lost about a quarter of its people in the Second World War.

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Definitions of belarus

  1. 1nounbelarusThe flat landlocked country of Minsk, between Poland and Russia.B2

    “Belarus is largely flat and heavily forested.”

belarus is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. be

    Белару́сь

  2. English

    Belarus

  3. English, today

    belarus

Belarus Borrowed from be Белару́сь. be Белару́сь, from historical Бе́лая Русь (“White Ruthenia or White Rus”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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