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Jul 25, 2019
This week’s themeToponyms
This week’s words
solecism
Manchurian candidate
Dunkirk
Siberia
Russian soldiers guarding Siberian exiles
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with Anu GargSiberia
PRONUNCIATION:
(sy-BEER-ee-uh) 
MEANING:
noun: An undesirable or isolated location assigned to those who have fallen out of favor or are being disciplined.
ETYMOLOGY:
After Siberia, a vast region of central and eastern Russia, used as a place of exile by Russia under the tsars and by the USSR. Earliest documented use: 1841. See also: gulag.
USAGE:
“The balcony, once a Siberia for diners without boldfaced names, could become a desired location.”
Florence Fabricant; Everything’s Up to Date (for 1958, That Is); The New York Times; Apr 26, 2017.
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Florence Fabricant; Everything’s Up to Date (for 1958, That Is); The New York Times; Apr 26, 2017.
See more usage examples of Siberia in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary.
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
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