| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| oblast |
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| SYLLABICATION: | o·blast |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  ô bl st, ôbläst |
| NOUN: | An administrative territorial division within Russia and other former Soviet republics, including Ukraine and Kyrgyzstan. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Russian oblast', from Old Church Slavonic oblast : ob, on; see epi in Appendix I + vlast, power; see wal- in Appendix I.
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