Definitions for gulags

gulags gu·lag

Spelling: [goo-lahg]
IPA: /ˈgu lɑg/

Gulags is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 62 anagrams from letters in gulags (agglsu).

Definitions for gulags

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 gulags

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

Examples for gulags

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Word Value for gulags
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Words with friends

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