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    UKRAYINA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth centuryplay

    Synonyms:

    Ukraine; Ukrayina

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

    Meronyms (parts of "Ukrayina"):

    Crimea (a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov)

    capital of the Ukraine; Kiev; Kyyiv (capital and largest city of the Ukraine; a major manufacturing and transportation center)

    Donetsk; Donetske; Stalino (an industrial city in the Donets Basin)

    Donbas; Donbass; Donets Basin (an industrial region in the Ukraine)

    Chernobyl (a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986))

    Kharkiv; Kharkov (a city in northeastern Ukraine; former capital of the Ukraine)

    Odesa; Odessa (a port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea)

    Carpathian Mountains; Carpathians (a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area)

    Danau; Danube; Danube River (the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea)

    Dnieper; Dnieper River (a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea)

    Meronyms (members of "Ukrayina"):

    Ukranian (a native or inhabitant of the Ukraine)

    Holonyms ("Ukrayina" is a part of...):

    Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

    Holonyms ("Ukrayina" is a member of...):

    CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)

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