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mir
UK /mɪə/ US /mɪɹ/
noun 4name 3
Collocations
5ADJ.
aboard, all, aware, beautiful, most, orbital, under
VERB + MIR
carried, prevent
MIR + NOUN
n, serfdom, space, station
PREP.
during, out
ADV.
almost, only
Definitions
noun
1
A traditional village community in Imperial Russia, characterised by self-government and collectivist control of local lands.
[T]he constitution of the village […] was a subject which specially interested me, because I was aware that the Mir is the most peculiar of Russian institutions.
The mir was the only means to prevent this, and mir meant serfdom under another name. The landowners disposed of their land, or of so much as was required to support the peasants, not to individuals but to the mir.
name
1
A Soviet, later Russian space station.
2
A male given name.
name
1
A surname from Persian.
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[T]he constitution of the village […] was a subject which specially interested me, because I was aware that the Mir is the most peculiar of Russian institutions.
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The mir was the only means to prevent this, and mir meant serfdom under another name. The landowners disposed of their land, or of so much as was required to support the peasants, not to individuals b
Wiktionary03
Consisting of village elders elected by the male heads of household, the mir conducted almost all peasant business, fixing the dates for the agricultural year, deciding what, when and how crops should
Wiktionary04
In 1986, the Soviet Union launched the Space Station Mir. During its 15 year lifetime, it was the largest space station to orbit the Earth.
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Over 16,500 different technical and scientific experiments were carried out aboard Mir.
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The Mir space station was the largest man-made object to ever fall from orbit.
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