kuban
/kuːˈbɑːn/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.11 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A river in Russia in the North Caucasus. It flows through the Karachay-Cherkessia, Stavropol Krai Krasnodar Krai, and Adygea.
name
a geographic region of Southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River, on the Black Sea between the Don Steppe, Volga delta and the Caucasus.
name
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "...ex-Imperial officers who came to the Don and the Kuban to take arms against Lenins regime..."
- ""In the 1860s, the lands beyond the Kuban were settled by Black Sea and Line Cossacks from areas populated earlier...""
- "1954, United American Ukrainian Organizations Committee of New York "In the south, the Red Army abandoned Krasnodar and all of the Kuban. Nazi forces plunged south into the Caucasian highlands and east to Stalingrad.""
- ""In 1995, the administration of the Krasnodar Territory, again popularly called the Kuban, adopted the flag of the Kuban Cossacks, with the addition of the territorial coat of arms.""
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: Куба́нь, -, Kubáň, Kuban
Subject
Wiktionary places this term in People.