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Lviv

American  
[lveev] / lviv /
  1. a city in western Ukraine: formerly in Poland.


Lviv British  
/ lvif /

noun

  1. the Ukrainian name for Lvov

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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There were mothers and grandmothers in Lviv watering the flowers on fresh graves in a swiftly expanding military cemetery.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 18, 2026

At the AI defence conference in Lviv, there was some level of scepticism.

From Barron's • May 15, 2026

Lviv regional head Maksym Kozytskyi said the Bernardine monastery, a 16th-Century Unesco site, was damaged.

From BBC • Mar. 24, 2026

Residents of Rudno, on the outskirts of Lviv and near the aviation plant, told AFP last Friday that they heard explosions at night, and some reported gas outages.

From Barron's • Jan. 12, 2026

“Everything happened extremely fast,” Lviv Mayor Andrii Sadovyi said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026

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