Ukraine
Language: English
Part of speech: name
Pronunciation: ipa: /juːˈkɹeɪn/
ipa: /ˈjuːkɹeɪn/
ipa: /juːˈkɹeɪn/
ipa: /ˈjuːkɹeɪn/
ipa: /ʊˈkɹeɪn/
ipa: /ˈʊkɹeɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: Ukraine
form: the Ukraine
form: Ucrania
form: Ukrain
form: Ukrainia
form: Ukrania
form: Ukraina
Etymology: Borrowed from Polish Ukraina or Russian Украи́на (Ukraína), from Old East Slavic оукраина (ukraina), which is most commonly taken to have meant "borderland, marches" in this context, though for about a century now Ukrainian scholars have articulated an alternative theory that it meant "region, country, the land around (a given center)" in this context instead. See Name of Ukraine for more.
Senses: examples: text: An IAF representative told an Indian parliamentary committee that due to the Ukraine war a “major delivery” from Moscow “is not going to take place.”
ref: 2023 March 24, Rhea Mogul, “Russia can’t meet India arms deliveries due to Ukraine war, Indian Air Force says”, in CNN:
glosses: A country in Eastern Europe, bordering on the north shore of the Black Sea. Capital and largest city: Kyiv.
wikipedia: Name of Ukraine
Meronyms: sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Autonomous Republic of Crimea
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Cherkasy
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Chernihiv
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Chernivtsi
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: City of Kyiv
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: City of Sevastopol
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Dnipropetrovsk
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Donetsk
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Ivano-Frankivsk
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Kharkiv
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Kherson
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Khmelnytskyi
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Kirovohrad
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Kyiv
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Luhansk
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Lviv
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Mykolaiv
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Odesa
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Poltava
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Rivne
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Sumy
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Ternopil
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Vinnytsia
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Volyn
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Zakarpattia
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Zaporizhzhia
sense: the constituent oblasti, autonomous republic, and cities with special status of Ukraine
word: Zhytomyr
Derived terms: Jewkraine
Jewkrainian
Ukrainer
Ukrainian
Ukrainization
Ukraino-
Ukrainophile
Ukrainophilia
Ukrainophilic
Ukrainophobe
Ukrainophobia
Ukrainophone
Ukraino-Russian
Ukro-
Ureign
Related terms: breadbasket of Europe
Ruthenia
Little Russia
Ukrainian SSR
Countries of the world