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Octobrist (iou)



Octobrist noun. . E20.
[In sense 1 from Russian oktyabrist, in sense 2 from oktyabryonok, from oktyabr' OCTOBER + -IST.]
Hist. A member of the moderate party in the Russian Duma, supporting the Imperial Constitutional Manifesto of October 1905. E20.
A member of a Soviet Communist organization for young people below the normal age of the Pioneers. (Cf. PIONEER noun 3c.) E20.