1. kiev - Noun
2. Kiev - Proper noun
capital and largest city of the Ukraine; a major manufacturing and transportation center
Source: WordNetI am very glad to hear this, since I come from the Ukraine. From now on I can sleep peacefully. I will immediately telegraph my daughter in Kiev. Nikita Khrushchev
One cannot help being impressed by the protesters. They have begun each day of the protest in Kiev in prayer and all activities are accomplished with a collective sense of respect, kindness, and an intention to conduct a peaceful revolution. Bob Schaffer
"Turn around, son! What a funny figure you are! Are those priests' cassocks you are wearing? And do they all go about like that at the academy?" With these words old Bulba greeted his two sons who had been studying at the Kiev college and had come home to their father. Nikolai Gogol
If Moscow is the heart of Russia and St. Petersburg is its head, then Kiev is its mother. Russian Proverb
Elderberries in the yard and an uncle in kiev. Russian Proverb
Elder-berry is in the kitchen-garden, therefore your Uncle is in Kiev. Russian Proverb