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DONETS BASIN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Donets Basin mean?
• DONETS BASIN (noun)
The noun DONETS BASIN has 1 sense:
1. an industrial region in the Ukraine
Familiarity information: DONETS BASIN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An industrial region in the Ukraine
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Holonyms ("Donets Basin" is a part of...):
Ukraine; Ukrayina (a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century)
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