Pripet

[ prip-it, -et, pree-pet ]

noun

1. a river in northwest Ukraine and south Belarus, flowing east through the Pripet Marshes to the Dnieper River. 500 miles (800 km) long.

Pripet

/ ˈpriːpɪt /

noun

1. a river in E Europe, rising in NW Ukraine and flowing northeast into Belarus across the Pripet Marshes (the largest swamp in Europe), then east into the Dnieper River. Length: about 800 km (500 miles) Russian namePripyatˈprɪpjətj

Example Sentences

Meanwhile a dialogue is begun through the door in the most beautiful dialect ever spoken from the Pripet to Chertomelik.

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Besides the Dnieper the only navigable stream is its confluent the Pripet.

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The German effort in the south, below the Pripet marshes, also slackened.

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Along the right bank of the Pripet River the land rises above the level of the water and is fairly thickly populated.

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In the upper Pripet basin the woods were everywhere full of countless little channels which creep through a wilderness of sedge.

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