Lviv

American

[lveev] / lviv /

a city in western Ukraine: formerly in Poland.

Lviv British

/ lvif /

noun

the Ukrainian name for Lvov

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Example Sentences

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Viktoria, who we met in Lviv, still cannot talk about her husband's death publicly for fear of condemnation.

From BBC

But the agency had to be sure, so it brought them to Lviv in western Ukraine for a lie-detector test.

From The Wall Street Journal

Her first memories of Christmas are as a child in the town of Lviv where she would have to mend her own shoes and go house to house singing Christmas carols to earn small change.

From BBC

Critical infrastructure and energy were hit in the Lviv region, Zelensky said, while the head of the region said a energy facility had been struck.

From BBC

This week I am in Lviv helping Ukrainian volunteers make camouflage nets for their soldiers.

From The Wall Street Journal

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