Associations to the word «Zhukov»

Wiktionary

ZHUKOV, proper noun. A transliteration of a Russian surname.
ZHUKOV, proper noun. Marshall Georgy Zhukov, a Soviet Russian career officer in the Red Army, one of the most decorated generals in the history of the Soviet Union and Russia.
ZHUKOV, proper noun. A town in Kaluga оblast, Russia, named after Georgy Zhukov.

Dictionary definition

ZHUKOV, noun. Soviet general who during World Warr II directed the counteroffensive at Stalingrad and relieved Leningrad and captured Berlin (1896-1974).

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