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Donbas

Meaning of "Donbas" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF DONBAS

dɒnˈbɑːs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF DONBAS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Donbas is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES DONBAS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Donets Basin

The Donets Basin, known commonly as the Donbas, is a historical, economic and cultural region of eastern Ukraine and southwest Russia. A coal mining area since late 19th century, it has become a heavily industrialised territory suffering from urban decay and industrial pollution. The Donbas Euroregion covers the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts of Ukraine, and also Rostov oblast of the Russian Federation. Donbas is currently the most densely populated of all the regions of Ukraine. The city of Donetsk is considered the unofficial capital of Donbas.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH DONBAS

Artigas · baas · bluegrass · brass · bypass · class · Donbass · fiberglass · first-class · glass · grass · hourglass · litas · maas · mas · middle-class · oubaas · pass · sparse · sunglass

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE DONBAS

Donatello · donation · Donatism · Donatist · donatistic · donatistical · donative · donator · donatory · Donatus · Donau · Donbass · Doncaster · donder · done · done for · done in · donee · Donegal

WORDS THAT END LIKE DONBAS

Abbas · anabas · as · as far as · as good as · as long as · as soon as · as well as · Bahamas · Barabbas · Barnabas · canvas · Christmas · Dallas · Dias · extras · gas · has · Honduras · Saint Barnabas

Synonyms and antonyms of Donbas in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «Donbas» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF DONBAS

Find out the translation of Donbas to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of Donbas from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «Donbas» in English.
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Translator English - Chinese

顿巴斯
1,325 millions of speakers
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Donbas
570 millions of speakers
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English

Donbas
510 millions of speakers
hi

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Donbas
380 millions of speakers
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دونباس
280 millions of speakers
ru

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Донбасс
278 millions of speakers
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Donbas
270 millions of speakers
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Donbas
260 millions of speakers
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Donbass
220 millions of speakers
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Donbas
190 millions of speakers
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Donbass
180 millions of speakers
ja

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ドンバス
130 millions of speakers
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DONBAS
85 millions of speakers
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Donbas
85 millions of speakers
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Donbas
80 millions of speakers
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Donbas பகுதிகளை
75 millions of speakers
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Donbas
75 millions of speakers
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Donbas
70 millions of speakers
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Donbas
65 millions of speakers
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Donbas
50 millions of speakers
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Донбас
40 millions of speakers
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Donbas
30 millions of speakers
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Donbas
15 millions of speakers
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Donbas
14 millions of speakers
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Donbas
10 millions of speakers
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Donbas
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of Donbas

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «DONBAS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of Donbas
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «Donbas».

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about Donbas

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DONBAS»

Discover the use of Donbas in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to Donbas and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Freedom and Terror in the Donbas: A Ukrainian-Russian ...
This book discusses both the freedom of the Ukrainian-Russian borderland of the Donbas and the terror it has suffered because of that freedom.
Hiroaki Kuromiya, 2003
2
Donbas: The True Story of an Escape from the Soviet Union
The almost unbelievable, but true story of a teen-age boy's survival and triumph over hardship in a Russian slave labor camp -- ending in a breathtaking escape -- DONBAS has proven appeal for middle- and high school students and has been ...
Jacques Sandulescu, 2013
3
Re-Constructing the Post-Soviet Industrial Region: The ...
This book examines the political economy of attempts to restructure the Donbass, one of the Soviet Union's most important 'old economy' 'rustbelt' industrial regions.
Adam Swain, 2007
4
Making Workers Soviet: Power, Class, and Identity
Hiroaki Kuromiya Donbas Miners in War, Revolution, and Civil War The Donbas, or Donets Basin, Russia's Ruhr, is located in eastern Ukraine and southwestern Russia. Numerous coal mines are scattered throughout an area about the size of  ...
Lewis H. Siegelbaum, Ronald Grigor Suny, 1994
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Secession as an International Phenomenon: From America's ...
Faced with the prospect of Yanukovych's defeat, some in Donbas suggested that they have a referendum on separatism. This was widely denounced throughout Ukraine, and it was never held. In 2006 Yanukovych's Party of Regions won the ...
Don Harrison Doyle, 2010
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Tracing Tectonic Deformation Using the Sedimentary Record
Evolution of the southern margin of the Donbas (Ukraine) from Devonian to Early Carboniferous times T. IMCCANNi, A. SAINTOT2. F. CHALOT-PRAT\ A. KITCHKA4. P. FOKIN5. A. ALEKSEEV5 & EUROPROBE-INTAS RESEARCH TEAM i ...
Tom McCann, Aline Saintot, 2003
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Russia, Ukraine and the Breakup of the Soviet Union
Roman Szporluk. or the "Donetsk-Dnieper" region corresponds to what are here Donbas (Donetsk and Luhansk), Dnieper (Dnipropetrovsk, Zaporizhia and Ki- rovohrad), and Northeast (Kharkiv, Poltava, Sumy) regions; and Kyiv and the West ...
Roman Szporluk
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The Soviet Iron and Steel Industry
96-97) readily reveals these vast increases in heavy long-distance hauls of Siberian coals by 1990. Then, too, Vorkuta's coals are also projected as still being able economically to withstand great transport costs. The tether on Donbas coal is ...
Craig ZumBrunnen, Jeffrey Osleeb, 1986
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Approaches to Handling Environmental Problems in the Mining ...
CHAPTER 17 Results of the EcoLinks Project devoted to cleaner metallurgical production in the Donbas Region - Options for cleaner recycling of nickel bearing wastes at the Konstantinovka plant "VtorMet" Prof. V. M. Sokolov1, J.J. Duplessis2 ...
Walter Leal Filho, Irina Butorina, 2003
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Coerced and Free Migration: Global Perspectives
... provided labor for thousands of peasants.61 The regional patterns of employment remained broadly similar throughout the period under consideration, but one major change was the emergence of a new industrial area in the Donbas region ...
by David Eltis

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «DONBAS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term Donbas is used in the context of the following news items.
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158 servicemen killed since start of the war in Donbas - Ukrainian …
As many as 158 servicemen of the Ukrainian National Guard have been killed and 702 wounded since the start of the war in Donbas on April ... «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
2
Fire on Ukrainian army positions in Donbas intensifies
Ukrainian servicemen stand beside a heavy machine gun at a position held by Ukrainian forces near the village of Dzerzhynsk, Donetsk Oblast ... «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
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9000 Russian servicemen stationed in Donbas - General Staff
About nine thousand servicemen of the regular armed forces of the Russian Federation are stationed on the temporarily occupied territory of ... «NRCU - Ukrainian Radio, Jul 15»
4
Ukrainian army claims 40 attacks by Donbas militants
The Donbas militants shelled Ukrainian army positions 40 times on Tuesday evening, the army operation press center wrote on Facebook. «Interfax, Jul 15»
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Heraschenko says Ukrainian government to consider opening …
Heraschenko says Ukrainian government to consider opening humanitarian corridors in Donbas. Print version. July 7, 2015, 9:57 p.m. | Ukraine — by Interfax- ... «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
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Trilateral Contact Group starts consultations with envoys of self …
Trilateral Contact Group starts consultations with envoys of self-proclaimed Donbas republics in Minsk. Print version. July 7, 2015, 6:36 p.m. | Ukraine — by ... «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
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Poroshenko supports holding elections in Donbas under OSCE …
The only way to settle the situation in Donbas politically is to hold fair and transparent elections under the monitoring of the Organization for ... «Kyiv Post, Jul 15»
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ICRC hands over pipes to Water of Donbas to repair water supply …
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has handed over pipes to Water of Donbas enterprise for it to repair its water supply ... «Interfax, Jul 15»
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Construction of Donbas strongholds continues
The chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces General Staff and Commander-in-Chief, Col. Gen. Viktor Muzhenko inspected strongholds in the ... «NRCU - Ukrainian Radio, Jul 15»
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Bulgaria will never recognize annexation of Crimea and …
... in Donbas, Bulgarian President Rosen Plevneliev told reporters at a meeting with Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko in Kyiv on Tuesday. «Ukraine Today, Jul 15»
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