Dvina

American  

[dvee-nuh, dvyi-nah] / ˈdvi nə, dvyɪˈnɑ /

noun

1. Latvian Daugava.  Also called Western Dvina.  a river rising in the Valdai Hills in the western Russian Federation, flowing west through Belarus and Latvia to the Baltic Sea at Riga. About 640 miles (1,030 km) long.

2. Also called Northern Dvina.  a river in the northern Russian Federation in Europe, flowing northwest into the White Sea. About 470 miles (750 km) long.

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Dvina British  

/ dviˈna /

noun

1. Russian name: Severnaya Dvina.  a river in NW Russia, formed by the confluence of the Sukhona and Yug Rivers and flowing northwest to Dvina Bay in the White Sea. Length: 750 km (466 miles)

2. Latvian name: Daugava.  Russian name: Zapadnaya Dvina.  a river rising in W Russia, in the Valdai Hills and flowing south and southwest then northwest to the Gulf of Riga. Length: 1021 km (634 miles)

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Example Sentences

The men grudgingly loaded the sleds, crossed the iced-over Dvina River and boarded the train to the front.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2018

Ryan holed up in a convent on the Dvina River, where he dined on vegetable soup, boiled potatoes, roast pheasant and canned pears.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 9, 2018

The largest river entering the White Sea is the Northern Dvina.

From Scientific American • Nov. 22, 2011

But in the Smolensk area, blocking the traditional military highroad to Moscow�between the Dnieper and Dvina Rivers�the Russians had translated PU-36 into concrete and steel terms.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the Dvina, between Jacobstadt and Dvinsk, German artillery was also violently active.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)