Definitions for Moscow
ˈmɒs koʊ, -kaʊMos·cow

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Moscow, capital of the Russian Federation, Russian capitalnoun

   a city of central European Russia; formerly capital of both the Soviet Union and Soviet Russia; since 1991 the capital of the Russian Federation

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1. Moscownoun

   The capital city of Russia.

2. Moscownoun

   The government of Russia or the Soviet Union

3. Moscownoun

   A city in Idaho, USA

4. Moscownoun

   A town name in Iowa, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Indiana, Pensylvania, etc. in the USA

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1. Moscow

   Moscow is the capital city and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural and scientific center in Russia and in Eurasia. According to Forbes 2012, Moscow has the second largest community of billionaires in the world. Moscow is the northernmost megacity on Earth, the most populous city in Europe, and the 6th largest city proper in the world. It is the largest city in Russia with a population, according to the 2010 Census, of 11,503,501. By its territorial expansion on July 1, 2012 southwest into the Moscow Oblast, the capital increased its area 2.5 times; from about 1,000 square kilometers up to 2,511 square kilometers, and gained additional population of 233,000 people. Moscow is situated on the Moskva River in the Central Federal District of European Russia. In the course of its history the city has served as the capital of a progression of states, from the medieval Grand Duchy of Moscow and the subsequent Tsardom of Russia to the Soviet Union. Moscow is the site of the Moscow Kremlin, a medieval city-fortress that is today the residence of the Russian president. The Moscow Kremlin is also one of several World Heritage Sites in the city. Both chambers of the Russian parliament also sit in Moscow.

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1. Moscow

   on the Moskwa River, in the centre of European Russia, 370 m. SE. of St. Petersburg; was before 1713 the capital, and is still a great industrial and commercial centre; its manufactures include textiles, leather, chemicals, and machinery; it does a great trade in grain, timber, metals from the Urals, and furs, hides, &c., from Asia; besides the great cathedral there are many churches, palaces, and museums, a university, library, picture-gallery, and observatory; the enclosure called the Kremlin or citadel is the most sacred spot in Russia; thrice in the 18th century the city was devastated by fire, and again in 1812 to compel Napoleon to retire.

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1. moscow

   A city of Russia in Europe, situated on the river Moskwa, 375 miles southeast from St. Petersburg. It was the ancient capital of Russia, and was founded about 1147. It was plundered by Timur, 1382; by the Tartars, 1451 and 1477; ravaged by Ladislas of Poland in 1611. It was entered by Napoleon I. and the French, September 14, 1812; the governor, Rostopchin, ordered it to be set on fire (11,840 houses burnt, besides palaces and churches), September 15, 1812. It was evacuated by the French in October, 1812.

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1. Moscow

   From the River Moskwa, on which the city was built.

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1. • Russia
   • National Capital

British National Corpus

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   Rank popularity for the word 'Moscow' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #3198

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of Moscow in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of Moscow in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of Moscow in a Sentence

1. Christiane Wirtz:

   Moscow is thus impeding ongoing efforts for a peaceful end to the conflict with Abkhazia and South Ossetia in the framework of the Geneva talks.

2. Petro Poroshenko:

   Now, it is finally clear that we struggled on Maidan not against Yanukovych. He was just a cruel and obedient marionette, moscow was preparing to the liquidation and tearing Ukraine apart long before the victory of Maidan. They were expecting the fall of Yanukovych and accelerated the course of events.

3. Dan Coats:

   China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea increasingly use cyber operations to threaten both minds and machines in an expanding number of ways - to steal information, to influence our citizens, or to disrupt critical infrastructure, moscow's relationship with Beijing is closer than it's been in many decades.

4. Michael Cohen:

   There's no relationship, the last time that there was any activity between Trump Organization -- actually, wasn't even really the Trump Organization, it was the Miss Universe pageant, it was held in Moscow.

5. Andrey Mishchenko:

   An inventory was taken in Moscow of the city’s underground spaces, in order to allow us to plan for sheltering 100% of the city’s population.

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