Lena definition

lēnə, lyĕ-
A river of eastern Russia rising near Lake Baikal and flowing about 4,300 km (2,670 mi) northeast and north to the Laptev Sea. Its delta is some 400 km (250 mi) wide.
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(person, proper) A feminine name: var. Lina.
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(place) River in EC Siberian Russia, rising near Lake Baikal and flowing northeast into the Laptev Sea: c. 2,734 mi (4,400 km)
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Lena Sentence Examples

  • Lena frowned, wondering if the doc's adrenaline gun had overcharged her and made her hallucinate.

  • They built small vessels at Yakutsk on the Lena, 900 m.

  • Laptyev, started from the Lena in 1739, but encountered masses of drift ice in Chatanga bay, and with this ended the voyages to the westward of the Lena.

  • Several attempts were also made to navigate the sea from the Lena to the Kolyma.

  • The double river-systems of the Volga and Kama, the Ob and Irtysh, the Angara and Yenisei, the Lena and Vitim on the Arctic slope, and the Amur and Sungari on the Pacific slope, are instances.

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