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STALINGRAD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A city in the European part of Russia on the Volga; site of German defeat in World War II in the winter of 1942-43
Synonyms:
Stalingrad; Tsaritsyn; Volgograd
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
Holonyms ("Stalingrad" is a part of...):
Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)