Alexander Nevski

American  

[al-ig-zan-der nev-skee, nef-, -zahn-, uh-lyi-ksahn-dr nyef-skyee] / ˌæl ɪgˈzæn dər ˈnɛv ski, ˈnɛf-, -ˈzɑn-, ʌ lyɪˈksɑn dr ˈnyɛf skyi /

noun

1. Aleksandr Nevski, 1220?–63, Russian prince, national hero, and saint.

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Alexander Nevski British  

/ ˈnɛf-, ˈnɛvskɪ, ˈnjɛfskij /

noun

1. Saint. ?1220–63, Russian prince and military leader, who defeated the Swedes at the River Neva (1240) and the Teutonic knights at Lake Peipus (1242)

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Example Sentences

In 1894 the Russian government, then ruling Warsaw and Poland, erected the magnificent Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Alexander Nevski, far larger than the Catholic Cathedral of St. John.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just the same, when the royal train arrived at Sofia, the route from the railway station to the Alexander Nevski Cathedral was guarded by a triple line of soldiery.

From Time Magazine Archive

After his mother's death, Paul at once had his father Peter disinterred; he had been buried for thirty-five years in the convent of Alexander Nevski.

From The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth

By the orders of his great successor his bones repose in the monastery of Alexander Nevski.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 06 (From Barbarossa to Dante) by Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis)

Alexander Nevski is remembered as the hero of the Neva and of the North; yet even he was finally compelled to grovel at the feet of the barbarians.

From A Short History of Russia by Parmele, Mary Platt