Little Russia

[ lit-l ruhsh-uh ]

noun

1. former name for the region consisting mainly of Ukraine but sometimes considered as including adjacent areas.

Little Russia

noun

1. a region of the former Soviet Union, consisting chiefly of Ukraine

Example Sentences

When Ilya Metchnikoff was 8 and running around on his parents’ Panassovka estate in Little Russia, now Ukraine, he was making notes on the local flora like a junior botanist.

From Nautilus

"There is none," returned the child, in the dialect of Little Russia.

From Project Gutenberg

As a result, Little Russia was subject to all the horrors of war, but the Russian power prevailed in the end.

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Perhaps the most remarkable among the stories of this class is the following, which comes from Little Russia.

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A tune had come back to her that men sang in Little Russia trudging home from the wheat fields.

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A much closer parallel, however, is furnished by the Ҳороводъ or choral dance of Little Russia.

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