Kherson

American  

[ker-sawn, ker-sawn, khyir-sawn] / kɛrˈsɔn, ˈkɛrˌsɔn, xyɪrˈsɔn /

noun

1. a port in southern Ukraine, on the Dnieper River, on the Black Sea.

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Kherson British  

/ xɪrˈsɔn /

noun

1. a port in S Ukraine on the Dnieper River near the Black Sea: shipyards. Pop: 320 000 (2005 est)

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Example Sentences

"She was only 23 years old and had begun her service at the start of the full-scale invasion of the Kherson region," the national police wrote on Telegram on Sunday morning.

From BBC • Feb. 22, 2026

Since leaving Kherson, she has not even taken her viola out of its case.

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

It has been trying to gain full control of the area along with two more regions to the west - Zaporizhzhia and Kherson.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 2026

Smolyak, who worked as a medic for more than 25 years, fled his home in the southern Kherson region when Russia invaded nearly four years ago.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

We had then more than two versts to travel over an island, before we came to the branch of the river opposite Kherson.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de