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Definitions

Proper Noun

1. 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. 2
   A small town and comune of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy.
3. 3
   The name of numerous settlements in the Ukraine, including:; A village in Mykolaivka rural hromada, Dnipro Raion, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine.
4. 4
   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
5. 5
   The name of numerous settlements in the Ukraine, including:; A rural settlement in Lyman urban hromada, Kramatorsk Raion, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine.

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

Etymology

Etymology 1

Clipping of Russian Новако́вский (Novakóvskij).

Etymology 2

From Italian Nove.

Etymology 3

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

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