Odessa
proper nounproper nounattested in dialogue
- United Kingdom//əʊˈdɛsə//
- United States//oʊˈdɛsə//
A locale in Ukraine: A port city, the administrative center of Odessa Raion and Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
proper noun
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A locale in Ukraine: A port city, the administrative center of Odessa Raion and Odesa Oblast, Ukraine, situated on the northwestern shore of the Black Sea.
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A locale in Ukraine: A raion of Odesa Oblast, Ukraine. Capital: Odessa.
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A locale in Ukraine: An oblast of Ukraine. Capital: Odessa.
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A locale in Canada: A community in the township municipality of Loyalist, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario, Canada.
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A locale in Canada: A village in the Rural Municipality of Francis No. 127, Saskatchewan, Canada.
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A locale in the United States: A ghost town in Kings County, California, United States.
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A locale in the United States: A small town in New Castle County, Delaware, United States.
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A locale in the United States: A census-designated place in Pasco County, Florida, United States.
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A locale in the United States: A tiny city in Big Stone County, Minnesota, United States.
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A locale in the United States: A city in Lafayette County, Missouri, United States.
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A locale in the United States: A census-designated place in Buffalo County, Nebraska, United States.
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A locale in the United States: A village in Schuyler County, New York, United States.
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A locale in the United States: An unincorporated community in Klamath County, Oregon, United States.
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A locale in the United States: A city, the county seat of Ector County, Texas, United States.
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A locale in the United States: A small town in Lincoln County, Washington, United States.
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A locale in the United States: An unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia, United States.
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian Оде́сса (Odéssa), named after an Ancient Greek settlement thought to have been located nearby. Ancient Greek Ὀδησσός (Odēssós). Compare Ukrainian Оде́са (Odésa). The city was on the former Turkish territory of Yedisan, which may have influenced the choice of name. Yedisan means "seven titles" i.e. tribes, from yedi + san.
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A female given name.
George Bixler, cashier, and Miss Odessa Moser, bookkeeper, were not suspicious when three men entered the bank at 10:15 A. M. wearing firemen's blue jackets and jumpers and with their faces smeared as though with engine grease.
The marriage of Miss Odessa Elizabeth Milford, daughter of J. Davis Milford of Columbus, Ga., and the late Mrs. Milford, to Theodore John Hahn, son of Mrs. Theodore F. Hahn and the late Rev. John Hahn of Baltimore, took place this afternoon at Brown Memorial Church with the Rev. Dr. J. Ross Stevenson, president of Princeton Theological Seminary, officiating.
Mrs. Odessa Wright Donnelly, who retired after thirty years' service with the Harlem Young Women's Christian Association in 1957, died Friday at her home at 246 West 150th Street after a short illness.
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly from the placename, with usage influenced by the name Odysseus.
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