glasnost
Portuguese, noun/ɡlas.ˈnɔst͡ʃ/
glasnost is spelled G-L-A-S-N-O-S-T (8 letters) and appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese, the 119,611th most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Glasnost is a Portuguese feminine noun meaning “glasnost (policy of transparency of the Soviet Union)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “plano político implantado na União Soviética na década de 1980 que, junto com a perestroika, sob governo de…”.
What does glasnost mean in English?
noun
- 1
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Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
noun: 1. plano político implantado na União Soviética na década de 1980 que, junto com a perestroika, sob governo de Mikhail Gorbachev, pretendia causar mais abertura política no estado soviético
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce glasnost?
- Brazil /ɡlas.ˈnɔst͡ʃ/
- Brazil /ɡlas.ˈnɔst/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to glasnost
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is glasnost in Portuguese?
glasnost appears about once in every 16 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).