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BELGIUM
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A monarchy in northwestern Europe; headquarters for the European Union and for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Synonyms:
Belgique; Belgium; Kingdom of Belgium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Belgium"):
Scheldt; Scheldt River (a river that rises in France and flows northeast across Belgium and empties into the North Sea)
Sambre; Sambre River (a river in western Europe that rises in northern France and flows generally east into Belgium where it joins the Meuse at Namur)
Meuse; Meuse River (a European river; flows into the North Sea)
Waterloo (a town in central Belgium where in 1815 Napoleon met his final defeat)
Namur (a city in south central Belgium situated on a promontory between the Meuse River and the Sambre River; the site of intense fighting in World War I and World War II)
Liege; Luik (city in eastern Belgium; largest French-speaking city in Belgium)
Belgian capital; Brussels; Bruxelles; capital of Belgium (the capital and largest city of Belgium; seat of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
Antwerp; Antwerpen; Anvers (a busy port and financial center in northern Belgium on the Scheldt river; it has long been a center for the diamond industry and the first stock exchange was opened there in 1460)
Bruges; City of Bridges (a city in northwestern Belgium that is connected by canal to the North Sea; in the 13th century it was a leading member of the Hanseatic League; the old city (known as the City of Bridges) is a popular tourist attraction)
Charleroi (city in southwestern Belgium; center of an industrial region)
Gand; Gent; Ghent (port city in northwestern Belgium and industrial center; famous for cloth industry)
Meronyms (members of "Belgium"):
Walloon (a member of the French-speaking people living in Belgium)
Fleming (a native of Flanders or a Flemish-speaking Belgian)
Belgian (a native or inhabitant of Belgium)
Domain member region:
commune (the smallest administrative district of several European countries)
battle of Ypres; third battle of Ypres; Ypres (battle in World War I (1917); an Allied offensive which eventually failed because tanks bogged down in the waterlogged soil of Flanders; Germans introduced mustard gas which interfered with the Allied artillery)
battle of Ypres; second battle of Ypres; Ypres (battle in World War I (1915); Germans wanted to try chlorine (a toxic yellow gas) as a weapon and succeeded in taking considerable territory from the Allied salient)
battle of Ypres; first battle of Ypres; Ypres (battle in World War I (1914); heavy but indecisive fighting as the Allies and the Germans both tried to break through the lines of the others)
Battle of Waterloo; Waterloo (the battle on 18 June 1815 in which Prussian and British forces under Blucher and the Duke of Wellington routed the French forces under Napoleon)
Battle of Fontenoy; Fontenoy (a battle in 1745 in which the French army under Marshal Saxe defeated the English army and their allies under the duke of Cumberland)
Bouvines (in 1214 the French under Philip Augustus defeated a coalition formed against him in one of the greatest battles of the middle ages)
Holonyms ("Belgium" is a part of...):
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
Holonyms ("Belgium" is a member of...):
Common Market; EC; EEC; EU; Europe; European Community; European Economic Community; European Union (an international organization of European countries formed after World War II to reduce trade barriers and increase cooperation among its members)
NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)
Benelux (a customs union comprising Belgium and Netherlands and Luxembourg)
Derivation:
Belgian (of or relating to or characteristic of Belgium or the Belgian people)
Context examples:
Yes, and Belgium, too.
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A team led by Miguel Montargès, an astronomer at KU Leuven in Belgium, has been observing the star with ESO's Very Large Telescope since December, aiming to understand why it’s becoming fainter.
(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)
On Monday, digital security researchers Mathy Vanhoef and Frank Piessens of Belgium's KU Leuven university publicly disclosed a security vulnerability in the WPA2 Wi-Fi (wireless local-area networking) protocol, which they called KRACK (for Key Reinstallation Attack).
(Digital security researchers publicly reveal vulnerability in WPA2 WiFi protocol, Wikinews)
Some countries are more cautious, Belgium and Greece have set this limit at 3 volts/metre.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
And Belgium?
(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
We have to follow the example of Belgium, Luxembourg, Poland, Greece.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
We are in Fléron, Belgium, this antenna is in the middle of a residential area.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
Actions in the Council of State in Belgium in the Court of Appeal in France on forbidding antennae or power lines.
(Health threats caused by mobile phone radiation, EUROPARL TV)
