duma
pronunciation
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Word Origin
- duma (n.)
- Russian national assembly, 1870 (in reference to city councils; the national one was set up in 1905), literally "thought," from a Germanic source (compare Gothic doms "judgment," English doom, deem).
Example
- 1. He has rejected demands for a new duma election .
- 2. It owed its bare majority in the duma to fraud in december 's election .
- 3. Some of these steps will be taken by the duma , but much more needs to be tackled .
- 4. Kaspersky employees brief the duma , russia 's parliament ; american researchers brief congress and the white house .
- 5. Before the russian duma broke for its annual summer holiday on july 13th , it had an important agenda to get through .