Definitions for Gulag

Gulag gu·lag

Spelling: [goo-lahg]
IPA: /ˈgu lɑg/

Gulag is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Gulag (agglu).

Definitions for Gulag

noun

  1. the system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union.
  2. a Soviet forced-labor camp.
  3. any prison or detention camp, especially for political prisoners.

Origin of Gulag

1970-75; Russian Gulág, acronym from Glávnoe upravlénie ispravítelʾno-trudovýkh lageréĭ Main Directorate of Corrective Labor Camps

Examples for Gulag

Inside of prison, even our privileged American prison, scarcity is just as much of an issue as it was in the gulag.

It was post-Stalin, and they were unthreatened by the gulag, but censored and surveilled.

When I wrote the novel about the gulag, House of Meetings, the name Stalin only appears in a footnote very early on.

A former lover of Shostakovich, the writer Galina Serebryakova, disappeared into the gulag camps.

Gulo-mental: includes the region covered by the gulag and mentum.

Gular suture: the line of division between the gulag or throat and the gene or cheeks.

Natan Sharansky—then Anatoly Scharansky—was somewhere deep in the gulag, imprisoned for speaking his mind.

Her follow-up to gulag, the equally compelling and bleak The Iron Curtain, was also released to wide acclaim in 2012.

I am sure that no one in a gulag or Kanz-lager would have turned their nose up at some fresh poultry.

It called the sign on its wall “an intentional insult to the memory of millions who died in the gulag.”

Word Value for Gulag
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Words with friends

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