Associations to the word «Duma»

Wiktionary

DUMA, noun. The lower house of the Federal Assembly, or the Russian national parliament.
DUMA, noun. A drink mixing wine and vodka, name taken from the above.

Dictionary definition

DUMA, noun. A legislative body in the ruling assembly of Russia and of some other republics in the former USSR.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats