Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northwest Ukraine west of Kiev. It was annexed by Russia in 1793 and by Poland in 1921.
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- proper noun A city in
Ukraine , administrative centre of Rivne province. - proper noun Rivne province (
oblast ), in north-western Ukraine.
Etymologies
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Examples
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My mother’s mother, Mary (née Mindl) Yaffe, was born in 1906 in Rovno (now known as Rivne), a city in the Russian territory of Volhynia Gubernia, now located in Ukraine.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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My mother’s mother, Mary (née Mindl) Yaffe, was born in 1906 in Rovno (now known as Rivne), a city in the Russian territory of Volhynia Gubernia, now located in Ukraine.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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I contacted him and gave him the name of the town I was most interested in, Rivne.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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I contacted him and gave him the name of the town I was most interested in, Rivne.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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When I met him in Salt Lake City, he handed me a stack of documents related to the Rivne genealogical archives.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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When I met him in Salt Lake City, he handed me a stack of documents related to the Rivne genealogical archives.
Shaking the Family Tree Buzzy Jackson 2010
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To replace the power generated by Chernobyl, which Ukrainian officials say accounted for approximately 5 percent of the country's total, Ukraine resumed construction of two 1-GW reactors at the Khmelnitsky and Rivne power plants.
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They also urged Ukraine to make needed reforms in the energy sector and urged the EBRD to complete its review of the Khmelnitsky 2 and Rivne 4 safety upgrade projects and contribute to the financing of a loan project for those nuclear safety upgrades, once the lending criteria of the EBRD were met.
Press Briefing By Mccurry And Summers ITY National Archives 1998
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Avtonomna Respublika Krym* (Simferopol '), Rivnens'ka (Rivne),
The 2001 CIA World Factbook United States. Central Intelligence Agency
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The incident took place in Ukraine's northern Rivne province, adjacent to Belarus, after a border patrol observed a Soviet-make T - 25 tractor attempting to enter Ukraine via a farm field.
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