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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A city of western Russia south-southeast of Moscow. Originally founded in the 1200s, it was rebuilt in 1707 as a metallurgical center by orders of Peter the Great.

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  • proper noun A city in Russia, administrative centre of Lipetsk oblast.

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Examples

  • The other deaths were in the Nizhny Novgorod, Ryazan and Lipetsk regions, all south or east of Moscow.

    Russia Forest Fires Rage, 25 Dead (PHOTOS) 2010

  • Even when the wheat is in the ground, farmers will need more moisture to replenish the deeper layers of the soil, which in the Lipetsk region, east of Kursk, has dried down to 1.5 meters or 2 meters below the surface, desiccating the roots of nearby pine trees, according to Martin Leu, a Black Earth production manager in the area.

    Russia Gets a Rainy Reprieve 2010

  • Fires in the Tatarstan, Vladimir, Mordovia, Lipetsk and Belgorod regions have been extinguished, the officials said.

    Fires Still Burning Around Moscow 2010

  • So Duferco must continue sending steel the thousands of miles from NLMK facilities in Lipetsk, Russia to Farrell, Pa.

    Tom Conway: Media Fails to Probe Multi-National's Refusal to Buy American 2009

  • If Duferco can get its hands on American tax dollars to profit in Lipetsk, it will be all the happier.

    Tom Conway: Media Fails to Probe Multi-National's Refusal to Buy American 2009

  • At a zoo in Lipetsk, south of Moscow, director Alexander Osipov said monkeys would be given wine three times day, ''to protect against colds,'' the RIA-Novosti news agency reported.

    I have always been completely in love with Russia Jenny Davidson 2006

  • Lipetsk by the troops of Novgorod and Smolensk, with such fury that they were routed, and 9,000 were killed whereas only 60 were taken prisoners.

    The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen

  • The meetings were held in June, 1879, two months after Solovyoff's unsuccessful attempt, at two provincial towns, Lipetsk and Voronezh.

    Russia Donald Mackenzie Wallace 1880

  • It was in the early dawn of the morning that the celebrated battle of Lipetsk commenced.

    The Empire of Russia 1841

  • Russia is doing fine, said Alyosha, from the city of Lipetsk, 270 miles away, with a sarcastic smile.

    TIME.com: Top Stories 2011

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