noun
a resort city in Crimea in the southern Ukraine on the Black Sea; site of the Allied conference between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in February 1945
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑city, ↑metropolis, ↑urban center
• Part Holonyms: ↑Crimea
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/yawl"teuh/; Russ. /yahl"teuh/, n.
a seaport in the Crimea, S Ukraine, on the Black Sea: site of wartime conference of Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin February 4-12, 1945. 83,000.
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Yalta [Yalta]
a holiday town by the sea in the Ukraine in the former USSR, where the Yalta Conference took place in February 1945. The leaders of the ↑Allies, Winston Churchill, Franklin D Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, met to agree on plans to defeat Germany in ↑World War II, to decide on what the borders of various countries in Europe would be after the war ended, and to make plans for setting up the ↑United Nations.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.