Dezhnev

 [dezh-nef, -nee-awf; Russ. dyi-zhnyawf]  

De·zhnev

   [dezh-nef, -nee-awf; Russ. dyi-zhnyawf]
noun
Cape, a cape in the NE Russian Federation in Asia, on the Bering Strait: the northeasternmost point of Asia.
Also called East Cape.
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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
an arrangement of five objects, as trees, in a square or rectangle, one at each corner and one in the middle.
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Dezhnev (Russian dɪʒˈnjɔf)
 
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Cape Dezhnev Former name: East Cape a cape in NE Russia at the E end of Chukchi Peninsula: the northeasternmost point of Asia

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