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russ homograph 1

noun masculinesubstantiv hankjønn

a school leaver (in the Norwegian spring graduation celebration)

EtymologyOpphav

trolig fra latin depositurus ‘som skal avlegge (hornene)’, av deponere probably from Latin depositurus ‘who is to shed (the horns)’, from deponere

Senses and Example SentencesBetydning og bruk

  1. avgangselev ved videregående skole (som feirer i vårmånedene) final-year pupil at an upper-secondary school (who celebrates in the spring months)
    • russ som fester høylytt graduating pupils partying loudly
    as a suffix in words such as:som etterledd i ord som blårussbusiness-stream school leaver (blue cap), rødrussgeneral-studies school leaver (red cap)
  2. i bestemt form entall: alle russ i et kull (i et område, på en skole) in the definite singular: all the leavers in one year group (in an area, at a school)
    • russen har oppført seg fint i år the leavers have behaved well this year
  3. om eldre forhold: avgangselev ved gymnas (1)an upper-secondary academic school, handelsgymnasa commercial upper-secondary school eller realskolea lower-secondary school historical: a final-year pupil at an upper-secondary academic schoolgymnas (1), a commercial upper-secondary schoolhandelsgymnas or a lower-secondary schoolrealskole
  4. om eldre forhold: student i første året etter studenteksamenthe school-leaving examination historical: a student in the first year after the school-leaving examinationstudenteksamen