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noun (formerly)
- a communist organization in the Soviet Union for youths 16 years of age and older.
- a member of this organization.Compare Octobrist(def 2), Pioneer(def 6).
noun
- (formerly) the youth association of the Soviet Union for 14- to 26-year-olds
Russian communist youth organization, 1934, from Russian Komsomol, contraction of Kommunisticheskii Soyuz Molodezhi “Communist Union of Youth.”