Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of west-central Ukraine west of Kiev. First mentioned in 1240, it was a way station on the trade route between Scandinavia and Constantinople, and was incorporated into Russia in the late 1770s.
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- proper noun A city in
Ukraine , administrative centre of Zhytomyr province. - proper noun Zhytomyr province (
oblast ), in north-western Ukraine.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada on July 8, 1932, to Ann Mandel and Harry London (changed from Herschel Landman when he came to Canada from Zhytomyr), Teme was named after her Russian great-grandmother, whose name was pronounced “Tem-e.”
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Bertha Landsman was born in Zhitomir (Zhytomyr, Ukraine) on June 12, 1882.
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Her brief, unhappy marriage and unrequited love for a poet in Zhitomir (Zhytomyr, Ukraine) awoke within her unbounded feelings of devotion and compassion toward people who suffered.
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(Luts'k), Zakarpattya (Uzhhorod), Zaporizhzhya, Zhytomyr note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
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Zhytomyr note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
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(Zaporizhzhya), Zhytomyrs'ka (Zhytomyr) note: names in parentheses are administrative centers when name differs from oblast 'name
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(Uzhhorod), Zaporiz'ka (Zaporizhzhya), Zhytomyrs'ka (Zhytomyr) note: oblasts have the administrative center name following in parentheses
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Zhytomyr note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
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Zhytomyr note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
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Volyn '(Luts'k), Zakarpattya (Uzhhorod), Zaporizhzhya, Zhytomyr note: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses)
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