English Explanatory Dictionary

Odessa

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. A locale in Ukraine:
  2. A port city, the administrative center of Odessa Raion and Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
  3. A raion of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. Capital: Odessa.
  4. An oblast of Ukraine. Capital: Odessa.
  5. A locale in Canada:
  6. A community in the township municipality of Loyalist, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
  7. A village in the Rural Municipality of Francis No. 127, Saskatchewan, Canada.
  8. A locale in the United States:
  9. A ghost town in Kings County, California, United States.
  10. A small town in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.
  11. A census-designated place in Pasco County, Florida, United States.
  12. A tiny city in Big Stone County, Minnesota, United States.
name
  1. A female given name.
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  1. A German organization founded after WWII, believed to have helped SS officers to flee from Europe.

Pronunciation

/əʊˈdɛsə/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Odessa.wav /oʊˈdɛsə/

Word forms

Odessa

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian Оде́сса (Odéssa), named after an Ancient Greek settlement thought to have been located nearby. Ancient Greek Ὀδησσός (Odēssós). Compare Ukrainian Оде́са (Odésa). The city was on the former Turkish territory of Yedisan, which may have influenced the choice of name. Yedisan means "seven titles" i.e. tribes, from yedi + san.

Related words

Odesa Hacibey Khadjibey

Derived words

Little Odessa Odessan Odessa Oblast Odessa Raion Odessite

Translations

Albanian: Odesa Arabic: أُودِيسَا Arabic: أُدِسَّة Armenian: Օդեսա Azerbaijani: Odessa Azerbaijani: Hacıbəy Belarusian: Адэ́са Bengali: ওডেসা Bulgarian: Оде́са Burmese: အိုဒက်ဆာ Catalan: Odessa Chinese Mandarin: 敖德薩 /敖德萨 Chuvash: Одесса Chuvash: Хечипӳ Crimean Tatar: Ades Crimean Tatar: Hacıbey Czech: Oděsa Danish: Odessa Dutch: Odessa Estonian: Odessa Finnish: Odessa French: Odessa Georgian: ოდესა German: Odessa Greek: Οδησσός Hebrew: אוֹדֶסָה Hindi: ओडेसा Hungarian: Odessza Italian: Odessa Italian: Odesa Italian: Ginestra Japanese: オデッサ Kazakh: Одесса Korean: 오데사 Kyrgyz: Одесса Latvian: Odesa Lithuanian: Odesa Macedonian: Оде́са Marathi: ओडेसा Marathi: ओडेस्सा Nogai: Аьжибий Norwegian Bokmål: Odessa Ossetian: Одессӕ Persian: اودسا Polish: Odessa Portuguese: Odessa Romanian: Odesa Romanian: Odessa
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