Akhmatova

[ ahk-mey-tuh-vuh; Russian uhkh-mah-tuh-vuh ]

noun

1. An·na [an, -, uh, ah, -n, uh], Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, 1889–1966, Russian poet.

Akhmatova

/ axˈmatəvə /

noun

1. AkhmatovaAnna18891966FRussianWRITING: poet Anna (ˈannə). pseudonym of Anna Gorenko. 1889–1966, Russian poet: noted for her concise and intensely personal lyrics

Example Sentences

So many were arrested in Leningrad, the poet Anna Akhmatova said, that the city “dangled like an appendage from its prisons….”

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Tatyana Akhmatova, a 65-year-old native of the Kyrgyz Republic who now works as a nurse the Bronx, agrees.

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His great pang in Montmartre was the Russian poet, and legendary beauty, Anna Akhmatova.

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