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 ships cruised north of the Arctic Circle, passing polar bears and snow-covered hills, sailed through the narrow neck of the White Sea and entered the Dvina River.

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

On the European side of the Urals, the volume of the Volga would be increased by funneling into it the flow of three major northern rivers, the Onega, the Northern Dvina and the Pechora.

From Time Magazine Archive

Dvinosaurus Amalitzky, a perennibranchiate stegocephalian from the Upper Permian of North Dvina.

From The Ancestry of Modern Amphibia: A Review of the Evidence by Eaton, Theodore H. (Theodore Hildreth)