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Nove.

A surname from Russian

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

name/nəʊv/
  1. A surname from Russian Alexander Nove (né Алекса́ндр Я́ковлевич Новако́вский [Aleksandr Yakovlevich Novakovsky]; 1915–1994), non-Marxist socialist, Professor of Economics at the University of Glasgow, and noted authority on Russian and Soviet economic history; father of Perry Richard Nove and Charles Alexis Nove

  2. A surname from Russian Perry Richard Nove (born before 1951), Commissioner of the City of London Police 1998–2002; son of Alexander Nove and half-brother of Charles Alexis Nove

  3. A surname from Russian Charles Alexis Nove (born 1960), British radio broadcaster; son of Alexander Nove and half-brother of Perry Richard Nove

Where this word comes from

Clipping of Russian Новако́вский (Novakóvskij).

name/ˈnəʊveɪ/
  1. A small town and comune of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy.

Where this word comes from

From Italian Nove.

name/nɔːˈveɪ/
  1. The name of numerous settlements in the Ukraine, including: A village in Mykolaivka rural hromada, Dnipro Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.

  2. The name of numerous settlements in the Ukraine, including: A rural settlement in Lyman urban hromada, Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

  3. The name of numerous settlements in the Ukraine, including: A rural settlement in Kropyvnytskyi urban hromada, Kropyvnytskyi Raion, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine, founded in the 1970s.

  4. The name of numerous settlements in the Ukraine, including: A village in Tarasivka starostynskyi okruh, Boiarka urban hromada, Fastiv Raion, Kyiv Oblast, Ukraine, formally incorporated in 1992, but probably first settled in 1957.

  5. The name of numerous settlements in the Ukraine, including: A rural settlement, the administrative centre of Nove settlement hromada, Melitopol Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1931. A former silrada of Melitopol Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, amalgamated into Nove settlement hromada in April 2019.

  6. The name of numerous settlements in the Ukraine, including: A rural settlement, the administrative centre of Nove settlement hromada, Melitopol Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, founded in 1931. A settlement hromada of Melitopol Raion, Zaporizhzhia Oblast, Ukraine, established in April 2019.

Where this word comes from

From Ukrainian Нове́ (Nové, literally “New”). Contrast Stare.

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