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dnieper
/ˈniːpəɹ/
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What does dnieper mean?
proper noun
- A major river in Eastern Europe which flows south through Belarus, Russia and Ukraine into the Black Sea. (see usage notes)
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According to Russian legend "the Dnieper, Volga, and Dvina used once to be living people. The Dnieper was a boy, and the Volga and Dvina his sisters."
On the sloping descent to the Dnieper Alpátych’s cart and that of the innkeeper’s wife, which were slowly moving amid the rows of soldiers and of other vehicles, had to stop.
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They were certainly bare of forest growth at a very remote period; for Herodotus describes the country of the Scythians between the Ister and the Tanais as woodless, with the exception of the small province of Xylaea between the Dnieper and the Gulf of Perekop.