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Lvov

[ lvawf ]

noun

  1. the Russian name of Lviv.


Lvov

/ ljvɔf /

noun

  1. an industrial city in W Ukraine: it has belonged to Poland (1340–1772; 1919–39), Austria (1772–1918), Germany (1939–45), and the Soviet Union (1945–91); Ukrainian cultural centre, with a university (1661). Pop: 719 000 (2005 est) Ukrainian nameLviv Polish nameLwów German nameLemberg
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Example Sentences

The syndrome, a neurological condition that can cause heavy facial sweating while eating, is named for Lucja Frey-Gottesman, a Polish neurologist who was murdered by the Nazis after being sent to the Lvov ghetto.

He’d done one of his first readings in English at Harvard when I was in graduate school, and his poem “To Go to Lvov” — he read it in Polish and English — bowled me over.

But he hopes that some of his books will be read for generations, like “The Girl in the Green Sweater,” which tells the story of a Holocaust survivor who hid in the sewers of Lvov, Poland, with her family for 14 months.

Wearing a good-luck ring that her sister had fashioned out of wire, Chepyk took a train to Lvov, a bus to Berlin and finally a train to Amsterdam, accompanied by ballet acquaintances along the way.

“For now, it is just sanctions and no action,” said Yulia Sayko, 24, a medical student in Milan whose family live near Lvov, near the Polish border.

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