Narva

[ nahr-vuh ]

noun
  1. a city in NE Estonia: Swedish defeat of Russians 1700.

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How to use Narva in a sentence

  • I think that even you, general, would rather have gone through the battle of Narva, than have spent that night among the wolves.

    A Jacobite Exile | G. A. Henty

British Dictionary definitions for Narva

Narva

/ (Russian ˈnarvə) /


noun
  1. a port in Estonia on the Narva River near the Gulf of Finland: developed around a Danish fortress in the 13th century; textile centre. Pop: 66 712 (2007 est)

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