veche
noun
veche is a noun meaning “a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled V-E-C-H-E, and it appears about once in every 66 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of veche is veches.
What does veche mean?
noun
- 1
a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries.
- 2
a modern assembly of Rodnovers, atavistically based off the medieval veche.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of veche
- veches plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is veche?
Veche appears about once in every 66 million words in written English, the 255,765th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Veche in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense a popular assembly in medieval Slavic countries:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | vétché |
| German | Wetsche |
| Portuguese | vetche |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does veche come from?
From Old East Slavic вѣче (věče, “council”) or modern Russian ве́че (véče)
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).