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

  • A city of southeast Estonia southeast of Tallinn. Founded in 1030, it was a member of the Hanseatic League and became part of Russia in 1704.

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  • proper noun The second-largest city in Estonia.

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  • noun a city of southeastern Estonia that was a member of the Hanseatic League

Etymologies

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From Estonian Tartu, from earlier Tarbatu, ultimately from tarvas ("aurochs").

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Examples

  • TARTU - Next time you're in Tartu; dare to venture ...

    News from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic Times. 2009

  • TARTU - Tartu, that bastion of culture in Estonia, ...

    News from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The Baltic Times. 2009

  • Estonia’s first flash mob, Friday Aug. 8 at 2 o’clock in Tartu on the Town Hall Square … bring a newspaper!

    Smart Mobs » Blog Archive » Glamouring: Another Kind of Flash Mob 2003

  • The series was quick to rebound with TARZAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE, an all-color feature made the same year, but it was the next two films that stood apart from every Tarzan feature that came before -- new series producer Sy Weintraub realizing that this Tarzan was being held back from true greatness by old series trappings like Jane and Boy who was called Tartu in TARZAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE and especially the comedy relief of Cheta.

    Scott the Magnificent 2006

  • The series was quick to rebound with TARZAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE, an all-color feature made the same year, but it was the next two films that stood apart from every Tarzan feature that came before -- new series producer Sy Weintraub realizing that this Tarzan was being held back from true greatness by old series trappings like Jane and Boy who was called Tartu in TARZAN'S FIGHT FOR LIFE and especially the comedy relief of Cheta.

    Archive 2006-01-15 2006

  • Completed in 1968, it is the sister building to the Tartu student residence a short distance west across Bloor street.

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • They had persuaded the highest-ranking Chechen in the Soviet armed forces, General Dzhokhar Dudayev, to fly out from Tartu, Estonia, where he commanded a garrison of nuclear bombers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • They had persuaded the highest-ranking Chechen in the Soviet armed forces, General Dzhokhar Dudayev, to fly out from Tartu, Estonia, where he commanded a garrison of nuclear bombers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • They had persuaded the highest-ranking Chechen in the Soviet armed forces, General Dzhokhar Dudayev, to fly out from Tartu, Estonia, where he commanded a garrison of nuclear bombers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

  • They had persuaded the highest-ranking Chechen in the Soviet armed forces, General Dzhokhar Dudayev, to fly out from Tartu, Estonia, where he commanded a garrison of nuclear bombers.

    The Return Daniel Treisman 2011

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