Rus

  1. Abbreviation.  (US) Rural Utilities Service.
  2. Proper noun.  A people made up of Scandinavian warrior merchants who travelled Eastern European river-roads from the eighth century, and whose settlements around Kiev and the Dnieper gave rise to the Russian principalities. (defdate, from 19th c.) .
  3. Proper noun.  Any of the medieval East Slavic principalities ruled by this class, especially Kievan Rus.
  4. Noun.  A person from Rus.

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