Kiev
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- proper noun
- /kiˈɛv/
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Kiev
- We decided to fly to Kiev anyway with Dr. Serdiuk's letter.
- Kiev, Ukraine
- a trip to Kiev
- a visit to Kiev
And that's when roughly half of Kiev showed up on the streets.
- And that's when roughly half of Kiev showed up on the streets.
- And the expectation was that Kiev would fall and the Ukrainians would would fold.
- And I'm proud that our ambassador, Melinda Simmons, is back in Kiev.
- There was an assumption that you would be able to successfully take Kiev.
- During Biden's speech, there was also a note that we expect Kiev to fall within the next few hours.
- And by influencing events in the Crimea, he will try to influence the government in Kiev.
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As the capital of Ukraine, Kiev plays a crucial role in the country's politics and economy.
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Charles Clover is the Kiev Bureau Chief for the Financial Times.
Academic text (1999) -
We ran all the way to Kiev and we ran all the way back.
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And I just think about like normal life going on in Kiev at the time.
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I knew quite a lot about Kiev, in fact, before I came.
Academic text (2008) -
One time I was flying from Moscow, Russia to Kiev, Ukraine.
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Time and time again the population of Kiev has risen up to defend their city.
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The origins of the Russian state are found in Kiev, the capital of Ukraine, around the ninth century.
Academic text (1997) -
My visit to Kiev comes soon after President Obama's visit to Moscow.
Academic text (2010) -
Just before Orthodox Easter, a new series of billboards appeared around Kiev advertising a modeling agency.
Fiction book (1999)
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Etymology
Kiev comes from an old story about a founder called Kyi, so the name originally meant 'Kyi's town'. That's why the city's name still points back to that early leader, and the modern Ukrainian form Kyiv is the same name in the local language.