Associations to the word «Gorky»

Wiktionary

GORKY, proper noun. (historical) Nizhny Novgorod. [from 1932 to 1990]
GORKY, proper noun. A Russian surname.
GORKY, proper noun. Alternative spelling of Gorki, Alternative spelling of Horki (a city in Belarus)
GORKY, adjective. (informal) Awkward or strange.

Dictionary definition

GORKY, noun. Russian writer of plays and novels and short stories; noted for his depiction of social outcasts.
GORKY, noun. An industrial city in the European part of Russia; birthplace of Maksim Gorky.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King