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Nevski

American  
[nev-skee, nef-, nyef-skyee] / ˈnɛv ski, ˈnɛf-, ˈnyɛf skyi /

noun

  1. Alexander. Alexander Nevski.


Nevski British  
/ ˈnjɛfskij, ˈnɛfskɪ /

noun

  1. See Alexander Nevski

"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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On the broad, cold Nevski Prospect the passers-by guessed: the hour was near.

From Time Magazine Archive

Just the same, when the royal train arrived at Sofia, the route from the railway station to the Alexander Nevski Cathedral was guarded by a triple line of soldiery.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1894 the Russian government, then ruling Warsaw and Poland, erected the magnificent Russian Orthodox Cathedral of Alexander Nevski, far larger than the Catholic Cathedral of St. John.

From Time Magazine Archive

Large posters, headed "A Manifesto of His Majesty the Emperor of Russia," and addressed to his subjects, are being posted up in the Nevski Prospekt.

From The Great War in England in 1897 by Le Queux, William

After his mother's death, Paul at once had his father Peter disinterred; he had been buried for thirty-five years in the convent of Alexander Nevski.

From The Memoirs of Madame Vigée Lebrun by Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Louise Elisabeth

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