Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com

Zhitomir

American  
[zhi-taw-myir] / ʒɪˈtɔ myɪr /

noun

  1. the Russian name of Zhytomyr.


Zhitomir British  
/ ʒiˈtɔmir /

noun

  1. a city in central Ukraine; centre of an agricultural region. Pop: 282 000 (2005 est)

"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

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine, on June 3, 1923.

From New York Times

Among other cities they held Zhitomir, Kiev, Nikolayev, and Odessa.

From Project Gutenberg

Blank was born in Zhitomir, Ukraine.

From Time

The samples cited by Greenpeace were taken in the Rivne and Zhitomir regions, which were in the direct path of the radiation cloud.

From Seattle Times

The man who would lead the world into the space age, Sergei Pavlovich Korolev, was born on 12 January 1907, in Zhitomir, in modern-day Ukraine.

From The Guardian