Synonyms for gulag
- gas chamber
- internment camp
- prison camp
- Konzentrationslager
- death camp
- detention camp
- forced-labor camp
- killing fields
- labor camp
- prisoner-of-war camp
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EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR GULAG
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.
WORD ORIGIN
system of prisons and labor camps, especially for political detainees, in the former Soviet Union; rough acronym from Russian Glavnoe upravlenie ispravitel'no-trudovykh lagerei "Chief Administration of Corrective Labor Camps," set up in 1931.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR GULAG
concentration camp
nounprison camp for prisoners of war or political prisonersdetention camp
nountemporary prison campprison camp
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