gulag
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++gu·lag /ˈɡuːlæɡ $ -lɑːɡ/ noun [countable] SCJone of a group of prison camps in the former USSR, where conditions were very bad 古拉格，苏联劳改营
Examples from the Corpus
gulag• As in all gulags, the prisoners have no voice.• If you have assembled a no-name dinner, you are immediately consigned to the gastronomic gulag.• Finally, you arrive in the paint scraper aisle, a dimly lit gulag in the rear of the store.• It is all a bit unnerving, and feels like some secret gulag.• Meaning they either threw you in the gulag for 20 years or condemned you to a lifetime of borscht.Origin gulag (1900-2000) Russian Glavnoe Upravlenie Ispravitel'no-trudovykh Lagerei “Chief Directorate of Labor Camps”gu·lag nounChineseSyllable
of prison a one Corpus of group camps
gulag
gu‧lag /ˈɡuːlæɡ $ -lɑːɡ/
noun [countable]
gu‧lag /ˈɡuːlæɡ $ -lɑːɡ/
noun [countable] Date: 1900-2000
Language: Russian
Origin: Glavnoe Upravlenie Ispravitel'no-trudovykh Lagerei 'Chief Directorate of Labor Camps'
one of a group of prison camps in the former USSR, where conditions were very bad
Language: Russian
Origin: Glavnoe Upravlenie Ispravitel'no-trudovykh Lagerei 'Chief Directorate of Labor Camps'