Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A city of western Russia on the Volga River east-southeast of Moscow. Founded in 1586 as a stronghold to defend river trade and the eastern frontier, it was temporarily the capital of the USSR from 1941 to 1943. From 1935 to 1991, it was known as Kuibyshev.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In botany, a dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded fruit provided with a wing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A dry, indehiscent, usually one-seeded, winged fruit, as that of the ash, maple, and elm; a key or key fruit.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- proper noun A city in
Russia , the sixth-largest in the country by population.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a winged often one-seed indehiscent fruit as of the ash or elm or maple
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SAMARA, Russia -- A criminal case against the editor of an independent newspaper in the southwestern Russian city of Samara has been closed, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
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SAMARA, Russia -- A criminal case against the editor of an independent newspaper in the southwestern Russian city of Samara has been closed, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
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SAMARA, Russia -- A criminal case against the editor of an independent newspaper in the southwestern Russian city of Samara has been closed, RFE/RL's Russian Service reports.
Spero News 2010
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"Samara" is a gem of a building and all efforts should be made to visit it and experience it first hand.
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"Samara" is a gem of a building and all efforts should be made to visit it and experience it first hand.
July 2007 2007
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It was built in Samara so Stalin could flee here had Moscow fallen during World War II.
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It was built in Samara so Stalin could flee here had Moscow fallen during World War II.
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It was built in Samara so Stalin could flee here had Moscow fallen during World War II.
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It was built in Samara so Stalin could flee here had Moscow fallen during World War II.
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It was built in Samara so Stalin could flee here had Moscow fallen during World War II.
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