Definitions
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- proper noun A male
given name of English speakers. - proper noun A
transliteration of the Russian male given nameИван . - proper noun slang A Russian.
- proper noun slang Russians (collectively, personified).
- proper noun A male
given name of Welsh origin.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ivan @Ivan: You can take all the umbrage you want.
Flopping Aces mlajoie2 2010
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He had attended a late-night meeting in a scrapyard where the term Ivan, a slang term for a Russian, was used.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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He had attended a late-night meeting in a scrapyard where the term Ivan, a slang term for a Russian, was used.
Let The Dead Lie Malla Nunn 2010
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Below it someone had quickly printed the name Ivan Navgorny.
The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009
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Below it someone had quickly printed the name Ivan Navgorny.
The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009
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Below it someone had quickly printed the name Ivan Navgorny.
The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009
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Below it someone had quickly printed the name Ivan Navgorny.
The Diamond Secret Suzanne Weyn 2009
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Erica, come on now, don't you know that Ivan is all seeing and all-knowing?
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Ivan is like many people I know or have known: self-righteous, asking a question but refusing any answer but his own.
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And know, strange brother, when I tell thee the word of Ivan is the law, that I am thy friend and no friend of Ivan.
NEGORE, THE COWARD 2010
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