Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northeast Ukraine east of Kiev. Founded in the 1600s, it was an important frontier headquarters of Ukrainian Cossacks who were loyal to the Russian czars. Today it is a major industrial center and transportation hub.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun An industrial city in eastern
Ukraine , administrative centre of Kharkiv province. - proper noun Kharkiv province (
oblast ), in eastern Ukraine. - proper noun Kharkiv river in Ukraine.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in northeastern Ukraine; former capital of the Ukraine
Etymologies
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Kharkiv.
Examples
-
Italy and Ukraine started Sunday at 1-1 in Kharkiv before Flavia Pennetta beat Alona Bondarenko 7-5, 7-6 (3) to put Italy ahead.
-
Vasyl Klymentyev, for example, the editor of Novy Stil, an investigative newspaper in Kharkiv, went missing last Au gust.
Save Ukraine's Democracy Yulia Tymoshenko 2010
-
Salzburg are all but out of the competition after a 4-0 drubbing at home by Metalist Kharkiv.
Europa League round-up: Metalist hand Salzburg an Arsenal-sized defeat 2012
-
Also in Group G, the Ukrainians Metalist Kharkiv hit back from a goal behind to win 2-1 at Austria Vienna.
-
Kharkiv's stadium is one of the Ukrainian venues that has been upgraded for Euro 2012.
England fans face 5,000-ticket limit at Euro 2012 knockout games 2011
-
Last week, 720,000 illegally printed ballot papers were found in the city of Kharkiv.
Save Ukraine's Democracy Yulia Tymoshenko 2010
-
The indictment alleges that Mr. Abu Sisi studied missile technology at the Kharkiv military engineering academy in Ukraine under a professor who was an expert on Scud rocket systems.
Israel Charges Engineer In Gaza Joshua Mitnick 2011
-
Neither Mancini or Ferguson will relish meeting an improving Metalist Kharkiv, strong performers in this competition during recent seasons, at their forbidding home in eastern Ukraine in a subsequent round.
Manchester City and United face long road to Europa League glory 2011
-
Mr. Yanukovych and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, announced the accords after meeting in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv.
-
Viktor Yanukovych and his Russian counterpart, Dmitry Medvedev, announced the breakthrough after a hastily scheduled summit in Kharkiv, Ukraine, saying that Ukraine will extend the lease on the Russian naval base in Sevastopol to 2042 in exchange for a steep discount on purchases of Russian natural gas.
Ukraine to extend Russia naval base lease, pay less for natural gas 2010
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.