Pripet

American  

[prip-it, -et, pree-pet] / ˈprɪp ɪt, -ɛt, ˈpri pɛt /

noun

1. a river in northwest Ukraine and south Belarus, flowing east through the Pripet Marshes to the Dnieper River. 500 miles (800 km) long.

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Pripet British  

/ ˈpriːpɪt /

noun

1. Russian name: Pripyat.  a river in E Europe, rising in NW Ukraine and flowing northeast into Belarus across the Pripet Marshes (the largest swamp in Europe), then east into the Dnieper River. Length: about 800 km (500 miles)

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Example Sentences

Other armies, possibly sparkplugged by Rokossovsky's forces, might launch a drive to Warsaw along the north fringe of the Pripet.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the pre-1939 map, Sarny lay deep within Poland's Pripet Marshes, 35 miles beyond the Russian frontier.

From Time Magazine Archive

Sending his troops slogging through the Pripet Marshes, Marshal Konstantin Rokossovsky seized Pinsk, after bombarding it from gunboats sent into the Pripet River from the Dnieper.

From Time Magazine Archive

Below the Pripet Marshes, the offensive went more slowly, because before it could roll, the formidable frontier fortress of Przemysl had to be stormed.

From Time Magazine Archive

From Lake Narotch down to the Pripet Marshes German and Russian guns again raked the trenches facing them.

From The Story of the Great War, Volume V (of 8) Battle of Jutland Bank; Russian Offensive; Kut-El-Amara; East Africa; Verdun; The Great Somme Drive; United States and Belligerents; Summary of Two Years' War by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)