Akhmatova
An·na [an-uh; Russian ah-nuh], /ˈæn ə; Russian ˈɑ nə/, Anna Andreyevna Gorenko, 1889–1966, Russian poet.
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How to use Akhmatova in a sentence
So many were arrested in Leningrad, the poet Anna Akhmatova said, that the city “dangled like an appendage from its prisons….”
Tatyana Akhmatova, a 65-year-old native of the Kyrgyz Republic who now works as a nurse the Bronx, agrees.
His great pang in Montmartre was the Russian poet, and legendary beauty, Anna Akhmatova.
British Dictionary definitions for Akhmatova
/ (Russian axˈmatəvə) /
Anna (ˈannə). pseudonym of Anna Gorenko. 1889–1966, Russian poet: noted for her concise and intensely personal lyrics
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