Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A semiautonomous region of southwest Russia in the central Caucasus bordering on Georgia. Annexed by Russia in the early 1800s, it later comprised the North Ossetian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic of the USSR (1936–1991).
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- proper noun A federal subject of
Russia located in the NorthernCaucasus mountains.
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Examples
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As far as Georgia is concerned, the use of the word "north" in the title North Ossetia is misleading.
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But Russian troops were massed in North Ossetia, which is not near Abkhazia.
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A lot of people want to reunify with North Ossetia, which is in Russia.
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That includes South Ossetians who fled to North Ossetia, which is part of Russia, and people in Georgia proper who fled the advancing Russian troops.
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Georgia, a former Soviet state, sent troops into South Ossetia on Thursday, aiming to crack down on the separatists, who want independence or unification with North Ossetia, which is in Russia.
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South Ossetia on Thursday, aiming to crack down on the separatists, who want independence or unification with North Ossetia, which is in Russia.
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South Ossetia on Thursday, aiming to crack down on the separatists, who want independence or unification with North Ossetia, which is in Russia.
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Georgia, a former Soviet state, sent troops into South Ossetia on Thursday, aiming to crack down on the separatists, who want independence or unification with North Ossetia, which is in Russia.
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Georgia, a former Soviet state, sent troops into South Ossetia on Thursday, aiming to crack down on the separatists, who want independence or unification with North Ossetia, which is in Russia.
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Georgia, a former Soviet state, sent troops into South Ossetia on Thursday, aiming to crack down on the separatists, who want independence or unification with North Ossetia, which is in Russia.
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