Kievanadj.
/kiːˈɛfən//kiːˈɛvən/ Of or pertaining to the city of Kiev, esp. with reference to the historical period (c900–1150) when it dominated European Russia.
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1927 D. S. Mirsky Hist. Russia ii. 8 The golden age of the Kievian political power occurred in the reigns of Vladimir and of his son Yaroslav (1019–1054).
1957 K. A. Wittfogel Oriental Despotism x. 418 In Medieval Sweden and Kievan Russia the decisive social relations..never seem to have matured... We may view them as..‘marginal’ feudal society.
1959 Listener 26 Mar. 564/1 The rise of the Kievan State in the tenth and eleventh centuries.
1965 Language 41 140 A recent study..includes some [foreign] loanwords as borrowed in the..Kievan period.
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adj.1927- ward off
- water intoxication
- water ivy
- water jacket
- water jacketing
- water jar
- water jet
- water joint
- water jug
- water jump
- water jumper
- water junket
- water kelpie
- water knot
- water lade
- water lagger
- water lane
- water language
- water leak
- water leasow
- water leat
- water leech
- water lemon
- water lentil
- water lettuce