Anadyr

[ ah-nuh-deer ]

noun
  1. a river in NE Siberian Russia, flowing SW and E to Anadyr Bay, on the Bering Sea. 695 miles (1,118 km) long.

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How to use Anadyr in a sentence

  • There his vessel was wrecked and he and his men made their way home overland, surveying, as they went, the Anadyr River.

    Along Alaska's Great River | Frederick Schwatka
  • We must bring a million of them up here before that danger-flood we speak of comes beyond the Gulf of Anadyr.

    The Alaskan | James Oliver Curwood
  • "Then we can count on that thing coming across the neck of sea from the Gulf of Anadyr," he finished.

    The Alaskan | James Oliver Curwood
  • The Anadyr River, of which reports had been heard from the natives, was his goal.

    Along Alaska's Great River | Frederick Schwatka
  • This was the first account which reached the conquerors of Siberia of the great river Anadyr which falls into the Pacific.

British Dictionary definitions for Anadyr

Anadyr

/ (Russian aˈnadirj) /


noun
  1. a town in Russia, in NE Siberia at the mouth of the Anadyr River; the capital of Chukot Autonomous Okrug. Pop: 11 038 (2002)

  2. a mountain range in Russia, in NE Siberia, rising over 1500 m (5000 ft)

  1. a river in Russia, rising in mountains on the Arctic Circle, south of the Anadyr Range, and flowing east to the Gulf of Anadyr. Length: 725 km (450 miles)

  2. Gulf of Anadyr an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia

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