Dnieper

Examples

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• ... the low hills of Lokhvitsa, brooding at nightfall, the steep banks of the river Dnieper, the grumble of distant cannonade.

  Fiction book (2002)

• Her search ended at the east bank of the Amazon, the broad gray flood cutting through the Sea of Grass between the Dnieper and the Volga, emptying into the Black Sea.

  Fiction book (1996)

• Just like winter on the Dnieper, she thought.

  Fiction book (1998)

• The trade route along the Dnieper was known as "the route from the Varangians to Byzantium."

  Academic text (2000)

• Kiev, on the banks of the Dnieper River, began as a fortification in the sixth century A.D.

  Academic text (2000)

• I could form an idea of the Kievan Rus, the Slavic kingdom that gave Russia its name, in a monastery high above the Dnieper where the bodies of holy monks are preserved in an asphyxiating network of tunnels.

  Academic text (2008)

• No matter how spangled the golden onion domes, how bestuccoed the Stalinist facades, or how commanding the views over the wide river Dnieper, the place left no impression on me.

  Academic text (2008)

• Of particular importance is the environmental quality of such major rivers as the Danube, Dnieper, Elbe, Oder, Po, Rhine, Vistula, and Volga.

  Academic text (2000)

• The first Indo-European ("Kurgan") incursion into Europe (ca. 4400-4300 B.C.) moved from the Lower Volga to the Lower Dnieper region, into the areas west of the Black Sea.

  Academic text (2000)

• The Dnieper River winds through several major cities before reaching the Black Sea.

Synonyms

D

Dnieper River

vsDnieper

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A major river in Eastern Europe that starts near Smolensk, flows through Belarus and Ukraine into the Black Sea

is the shorter form that omits the explicit river noun

Compounds

D

Dnieper River

1 5.8

A major river in Eastern Europe that starts near Smolensk, flows through Belarus and Ukraine into the Black Sea

Surface Forms

Etymology