Oblast Definition
ôbləst, ôbläst
oblasts
noun
An administrative subdivision, or region, of a republic in the U.S.S.R.
Webster's New World
Other Word Forms of Oblast
Noun
Singular:
oblast
Plural:
oblastsOrigin of Oblast
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From a Slavic language, probably Russian область (óblast', “region, province"), borrowed from Old Church Slavonic область (oblast'), from Proto-Slavic *obolstÑŒ, from earlier Proto-Slavic *obvolstÑŒ, *obvoldtÑŒ, a compound of *o(b)- (“over") + *volstÑŒ (“rule, power, authority"), thus originally probably meaning "a region ruled over". Compare Proto-Slavic *obvoldati (“to rule").
From Wiktionary
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Russian oblast' from Old Church Slavonic oblastĭ ob on epi in Indo-European roots vlastĭ power wal- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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