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Odessa

[ oh-des-uh ]

noun

  1. the Russian name of Odesa.
  2. a city in western Texas.


Odessa

/ aˈdjɛsə; əʊˈdɛsə /

noun

  1. a port in S Ukraine on the Black Sea: the chief Russian grain port in the 19th century; university (1865); industrial centre and important naval base. Pop: 1 010 000 (2005 est)
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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One teacher in Odessa in Ukraine told the BBC her dancers have tried to keep practicing even when one school was bombed and others have no electricity because of blackouts.

From BBC

Odessa’s most famous landmark, the Potemkin Stairs — best known for the harrowing tumbling-baby-carriage scene in the 1925 film “Battleship Potemkin” — are topped with a roll of barbed wire.

As part of Wasat’s Neighborly Needs project, the nonprofit is offering hundreds of free and hot meals to patients at Seattle Children’s hospital and Odessa Brown Children’s Clinic.

“Odesa” — this season, the spelling of its title was changed from the Russian “Odessa” to the Ukrainian way — is evocative of a place, where people live, love and suffer.

“If Ukraine were given seven such systems today, people in Kharkiv, Kherson, and Odessa would not be dying,” Mr. Zelensky said during a news conference in Riga, Latvia’s capital, on Thursday.

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