samara

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Definition

From Latin samara (“elm seed”), from a Gaulish term derived from Proto-Celtic *samos (“summer”).

It was she who, as I afterwards discovered, had furnished the large sums of money to Kampf for the continuation of the revolutionary propaganda, and indeed secretly devoted the greater part of her revenues from her vast estates in Samara and Kazan to the Nihilist cause. — The Czar's Spy: The Mystery of a Silent Love, William Le Queux
Fortunately for him, at this period so difficult for him from the failure of his book, the various public questions of the dissenting sects, of the American alliance, of the Samara famine, of exhibitions, and of spiritualism, were definitely replaced in public interest by the Slavonic question, which had hitherto rather languidly interested society, and Sergey Ivanovitch, who had been one of the first to raise this subject, threw himself into it heart and soul. — Anna Karenina, Leo, graf Tolstoy

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