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UKRAINE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Ukraine"):
Crimea (a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov)
capital of the Ukraine; Kiev; Kyyiv (capital and largest city of the Ukraine; a major manufacturing and transportation center)
Donetsk; Donetske; Stalino (an industrial city in the Donets Basin)
Donbas; Donbass; Donets Basin (an industrial region in the Ukraine)
Chernobyl (a city in north central Ukraine; site of a major disaster at a nuclear power plant (26 April 1986))
Kharkiv; Kharkov (a city in northeastern Ukraine; former capital of the Ukraine)
Odesa; Odessa (a port city of south central Ukraine on an arm of the Black Sea)
Carpathian Mountains; Carpathians (a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area)
Danau; Danube; Danube River (the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea)
Dnieper; Dnieper River (a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea)
Meronyms (members of "Ukraine"):
Ukranian (a native or inhabitant of the Ukraine)
Holonyms ("Ukraine" is a part of...):
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
Holonyms ("Ukraine" is a member of...):
CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)
Derivation:
Ukrainian (of or relating to or characteristic of Ukraine or its people or culture)
