1. Dnieper - Noun
2. Dnieper - Proper noun
a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea
Source: WordNetThe battle of Kursk... the forcing of the Dnieper... and the liberation of Kiev, left Hitlerite Germany facing catastrophe. Vasily Chuikov
As part of the partitioning of Poland in 1772, 1793 and 1795, the Ukrainian lands west of the Dnieper were divided between Russia and Austria. Source: Internet
Davies Europe pp. 321–326 Bulgaria, which was founded around 680, at its height reached from Budapest to the Black Sea and from the Dnieper River in modern Ukraine to the Adriatic Sea. Source: Internet
At the end of the year Khmelnytsky finally made his way to the south, to the estuary of the Dnieper river. Source: Internet
It is not clear when new Slavic people apart from Brodnici and Berladniki started settling in the lower reaches of major rivers such as the Don and the Dnieper after the demise of the Khazar state. Source: Internet
Moscovite chronicles use the exonym Cherkasy to refer both to enemy Cossacks (from Polish, Turk, and Tatar armies) and to Dnieper Cossacks, even when the latter were allied with Moscow. Source: Internet