Definitions for Duma

Duma du·ma

Spelling: [doo-muh]
IPA: /ˈdu mə/

Duma is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Duma (admu).

Definitions for Duma

noun

  1. (in Russia prior to 1917) a council or official assembly.
  2. (initial capital letter) an elective legislative assembly, established in 1905 by Nicholas II, constituting the lower house of parliament.

Origin of Duma

1865-70; Russian, Old Russian dúma assembly, council (an early homonym with dúma thought); cognate with Bulgarian dúma word, Slovak duma meditation; Slavic *dum- probably Gothic dōms judgment

Examples for Duma

Even from the tribune of the duma it was declared that the Black Cabinet was a fiction.

Deputies were full of optimism: sanctions would help to make the Russian economy healthier, duma members concluded on Wednesday.

Yet he is dangerous, and if he denounces us in the duma it will come as a bombshell.

If he reveals to the duma what he knows, then everything must be lost.

If thou wilt not postpone the duma, then the peril will be upon thine own head!

Last April, shortly after annexation, the duma voted for the law allowing gaming zones in Crimea.

"The duma must be prevented from opening," Rasputin declared at last.

Omar and Fouzi are from the West Bank village of duma, 13 miles southeast of Nablus.

“Our relationship with the U.S. has been growing colder and colder,” said the duma deputy, Robert Schlegel.

“It is not dissimilar from Putin using the duma to ratify his annexation of the Crimea,” he said.

Word Value for Duma
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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