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Yuri

proper nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈjʊɹi//

A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ю́рий (Júrij), equivalent to George.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A transliteration of the Russian male given name Ю́рий (Júrij), equivalent to George.

    Khrushchev’s answer came 60 years ago, on April 12, 1961, when Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin circled the Earth aboard a spacecraft called Vostok 1.

Etymology

From Russian Ю́рий (Júrij, “George”). Doublet of George.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from Japanese.

Etymology

* From Japanese ゆり (Yuri). * From Japanese ゆうり (Yūri). "Yuri" is a transliteration of several source forms, such as 由里, 由理, 由梨, 由利, 祐里, 友里, 友理, 悠里.

The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).