ALL meanings of gulag
gu·lag
G g - noun gulag Soviet labour camp 1
- noun gulag the system of forced-labor camps in the Soviet Union. 1
- noun gulag a Soviet forced-labor camp. 1
- noun gulag any prison or detention camp, especially for political prisoners. 1
- noun gulag A prison camp. 1
- countable noun gulag A gulag is a prison camp where conditions are extremely bad and the prisoners are forced to work very hard. The name gulag comes from the prison camps in the former Soviet Union. 0
- noun gulag (formerly) the central administrative department of the Soviet security service, established in 1930, responsible for maintaining prisons and forced labour camps 0
- noun gulag any system used to silence dissents 0
- noun gulag the system of prisons and labor camps, esp. for political prisoners, in the Soviet Union 0
- noun gulag such a prison or forced-labor camp, as in the Soviet Union 0
- noun gulag any place or situation regarded as like such a prison 0