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Definition of Dnieper

1. Noun. A river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea.

Definition of Dnieper

1. Proper noun. A large river flowing southerly through Russia, Belarus, and Ukraine into the Black Sea, 2,285 km long. ¹

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Literary usage of Dnieper

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Anthology of Russian Literature from the Earliest Period to the Present Time by Leo Wiener (1903)
"THE Dnieper Wonderful is the Dnieper in quiet weather when softly and ... They dare not look into the middle of the Dnieper; none but the sun and the blue ..."

2. The Historical Geography of Europe by Edward Augustus Freeman (1903)
"Its geographical position kept it from sharing the history Russian of the Servians and Bulgarians. And it must not be of Dnieper, forgotten that the oldest ..."

3. Pictorial History of the Russian War 1854-5-6 by George Dodd (1856)
"The river Dnieper, after a tortuous course th rou uh Russia, enters the Black Sea nearly in a westerly direction, expanding into a liman, estuary, bay, ..."

4. The Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, Emperor of the French: With a Preliminary by Walter Scott (1827)
"On the 17th of August, Napoleon assembled the whole of the operating army before Smolensk, on the left of the Dnieper. It consisted as follows :— The ..."

5. The New American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1859)
"The Beresina, Oginski, and King's canals, connecting tributaries of the Dnieper with the Duna, Niemen, and N. Bng, form water communications through these ..."

6. The Russian Empire, Its People, Institutions and Resources by August Haxthausen, Robert Farie (1856)
"EARLY in the morning of the 23rd we reached the t of the Dnieper, and were transported across in a man ferry-boat ; the carriage was no longer with ..."

7. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1914)
"THE WATERFALLS OF THE Dnieper—(P. 159) In the 9th chapter of his Treatise on ... by way of Kiev and the Dnieper, and enumerates the rapids of this river, ..."

8. Forests and Forestry in Poland, Lithuania, the Ukraine, and the Baltic by John Croumbie Brown (1885)
"FORESTS ON THE Dnieper. IT is not from anything peculiar to the forest management of Lithuania ... The largest river traversing Lithuania is the Dnieper, ..."

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