Vilna
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- proper noun
- Archaic
- During my trip, I visited Vilna, the beautiful capital of Lithuania.
Examples
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In 1859, a Hebrew translation of The Mysteries of Paris by Eugene Sue appeared in Vilna.
Academic text (2009) -
Yivo, founded in Vilna, then Poland, in 1925, had relocated to New York in 1940 after the outbreak of World War II.
Academic text (1998) -
- We heard of you in Vilna.
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- My sister lives in Vilna!
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Indeed, Yarmulovsky was on the selection committee that recruited the sage from Vilna.
Academic text (1990) -
But the following day, irregular Polish forces, falsely pretending independence from their government, broke the agreement and occupied Vilna on 9 October 1920.
Academic text (1995) -
Vilna, where the ordinary cobbler conversed in the Talmud.
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Born in Vilna (Vilnius) in 1928, he fought in the Israeli War of Independence in 1948.
Academic text (2009) -
Sometimes you find yourself utterly perplexed: is Vilna the Jerusalem of Lithuania, or is Jerusalem actually the Vilna of Eretz Israel?
Fiction book (1994) -
In the nineteenth century, students of the rabbinical giant, the Vilna Gaon, arrived in Jerusalem and became the prototype of today's ultra-Orthodox haredi community.
Academic text (2013)
Synonyms
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5.0
The capital and largest city of Lithuania
Surface Forms
Etymology
Vilna is an older name for Vilnius that comes from the small river Vilnia, and it was the form often used in Yiddish and by Jewish communities. So Vilna simply refers to the same city and appears in many old stories and records about that place.