Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of northwest Russia south-southeast of St. Petersburg. One of the oldest cities in Russia, it was strategically and economically important in the Middle Ages because of its location on the chief trade routes of eastern Europe. The city was overrun by Moscow in 1478 and lost its commercial dominance to St. Petersburg after 1703.
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- proper noun A historic
city and a formerprincipality inRussia . - proper noun A medieval Russian state.
- proper noun A northwestern
oblast of Russia.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a city in northwestern Russia on the Volkhov River; Russia's oldest city and an important trading center in the Middle Ages
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was born in Novgorod, became an orphan at the age of ten and ran away to live with his grandmother when he was twelve.
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Poland was Roman Catholic, so the Knights could hardly claim a Crusade as they could against the pagan Balts or the Orthodox Russians in Novgorod.
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Her theory is based partly upon a recent discovery in the Russian town of Pskov, Novgorod, which is located on the trade routes which took the Vikings eastward.
Archive 2008-02-01 Jan 2008
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Soon after that she was sent to the rear to a town called Novgorod, to organize a new unit.
Nelka Mrs. Helen de Smirnoff Moukhanoff, 1878-1963, a Biographical Sketch Michael Moukhanoff
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This town the professor, who knew this part of Russia well, at once identified as Novgorod, nearly a hundred miles south of Saint
With Airship and Submarine A Tale of Adventure Harry Collingwood 1886
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The merchants or _gosti_ did not form a distinct class, but in larger cities, such as Novgorod and Kief, they had a voice in the administration.
The Story of Russia R. Van Bergen
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We have to keep in mind, wonderful as the Russian gains have been, that, just as they have reached the point where they could gather in big strategic successes, the Germans are stiffening their resistance and sending fresh troop's and aviation forces to the Eastern front to prevent the loss of points such as Novgorod, Vyazma.
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One writer in the Times of London lampooned Moscow’s infrastructure, writing that “accommodation in Moscow and its immediate vicinity remains hard to come by, but the good news is that one or two rooms can still be found in Novgorod, which is just eight hours from Moscow by train.”
Russia Plans Near-Quarantine for English Soccer Fans - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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One writer in the Times of London lampooned Moscow’s infrastructure, writing that “accommodation in Moscow and its immediate vicinity remains hard to come by, but the good news is that one or two rooms can still be found in Novgorod, which is just eight hours from Moscow by train.”
Russia Plans Near-Quarantine for English Soccer Fans - The Lede Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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He tried to persuade the young, reformist governor of Nizhny Novgorod, Boris Nemtsov, to run—but Nemtsov convinced him the only option was for the democrats to rally behind Yeltsin.
The Return Daniel Treisman 2011
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