Kaunas
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- proper noun
- Samter again voiced the fears of many: 'Of the thousand people who were supposedly taken to Kaunas on November 17th, not one of them has written.'
- Kaunas, Lithuania
- Kaunas garrison
- Kaunas, about 60 miles
Examples
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The evacuees were told that they were being sent to a variety of destinations: Minsk, Łódź, Warsaw, or Kaunas—but that rarely brought any clarity.
Academic text (2010) -
One son had been shot as a war criminal in Kaunas, Lithuania; the other had been a distinguished member of the Australian national croquet team.
Fiction book (1995) -
Did you know he sawed off the head of the rabbi at Kaunas?
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A guy, husband, and father of a girl, drives the highway from Kaunas to Vilnius.
Blog text (23) -
He gets stuck in a traffic jam on top of a tall bridge near Kaunas.
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Entry visas for Kaunas.
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Since then, I've also traveled to Kaunas, Lithuania, to teach at Vytautas Magnus University and to Sheffield, England, to present a paper at an engineering conference.
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In Lithuania, they sort those things out, clean and mend them, and after that, sell them in markets that are famous for second-hand goods (Kaunas Aleksotas market, Kalvarija market, Rietavas market, just to name a few).
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In Kaunas, Lithuania's second largest city, the first vice-mayor in 1993, Rapolas Vasiliauskas, explored setting up a large biomass-fueled district heating plant with the help of Kaunas' sister city in Sweden, Vaxjo.
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In Kaunas, there are many beautiful parks along the riverside.
Synonyms
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A former name for Kaunas, a city in central Lithuania
Surface Forms
Etymology
Kaunas probably comes from an old Lithuanian or Baltic root kaun- meaning 'river bend' or 'river mouth', a helpful way to remember its origin. That's why the city name fits: Kaunas sits where the Nemunas and Neris rivers meet.