Crimean
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4.8
- adjective
- /kraɪˈmiːən/
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crimeo
- The nursing support role can be traced back to the beginnings of modern nursing, from the presence of nurses' aides during the Crimean War, 1854-56, through to the 'nursing auxiliary' role of the mid-1950s and on to the health care assistant role that was identified around 1990.
- Crimean War
- Crimean Tatars
- Crimean peninsula
Ukraine clearly was not in a position to retake the Crimean Peninsula by force.
- Ukraine clearly was not in a position to retake the Crimean Peninsula by force.
- Men in unmarked camouflage appear on the Crimean Peninsula, sent by the Kremlin.
- So the the Crimean hinterland, though, is generally not touched by Greek settlement.
- Raiders from the Crimean Khanate were able to burn Moscow itself, but the next year Russian forces routed the Tatars of Moladi, just South of the city.
- They farm, they fish and they, and they raid, they raid the Crimean Hanat, which we're going to talk about.
Examples
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When the tsar asked for Austrian help against the western powers during the Crimean War in 1854, Franz Josef refused it.
Academic text (2011) -
In the wake of the bloody Crimean War in the mid-1850s, a movement grew in Europe to address war's savagery.
Academic text (2008) -
No, my dear, the Crimean War... what do you think?
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The Crimean War, no doubt.
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Yet he maintained that in the Crimean War, England should have supported Russia as a Christian power rather than Turkey.
Academic text (1990) -
It's my father's Crimean War regiment.
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It's named for Liston, who was a surgeon in the Crimean War.
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The public's attitude toward nursing changed almost overnight with the activities of Florence Nightingale during the Crimean War.
Academic text (2002) -
London's Punch, for example, portrayed the cooperation between France and Britain in the Crimean War with political cartoons that foregrounded fashion.
Academic text (1997) -
The president spoke about the impact of the Crimean crisis on international relations.
Compounds
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7.5
A war fought from 1853 to 1856 in Crimea between Russia and Britain, France, the Ottoman Empire, and Sardinia
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Crimean comes from the place name Crimea, which comes from the Crimean Tatar word Qırım, a word that probably meant 'fortress' or 'hill'. So, something Crimean is 'from Crimea' or connected to that peninsula.