Rovno

American  

[rawv-nuh] / ˈrɔv nə /

Also Rivne

noun

1. a city in NW Ukraine, NE of Lviv.

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Example Sentences

Stanley Deser was born in Rovno, Poland, a city now known as Rivne and part of Ukraine, on March 19, 1931.

From New York Times

I also discovered that Leonard Bernstein’s parents were from Rovno, 100 kilometers from Brody, where I was born.

From New York Times

Fania came to Jerusalem from Rovno, in Ukraine, where she dreamed of a Palestine where handsome pioneers made the desert bloom.

From Los Angeles Times

Intriguingly enough, just weeks before the Rovno incident, Holbrook was one of four Army officers recommended for a job as Vice President George Bush's aide-de camp.

From Time Magazine Archive

Twenty miles farther north, in the vicinity of Olyka, the little town about halfway between the fortress of Lutsk and Rovno, on the railway line connecting these two points, the Russian forces reported slight progress on May 2, 1916.

From Project Gutenberg