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CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area
Synonyms:
Carpathian Mountains; Carpathians
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Instance hypernyms:
chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)
Meronyms (parts of "Carpathian Mountains"):
Transylvanian Alps (a range of the southern Carpathian Mountains extending across central Romania)
Holonyms ("Carpathian Mountains" is a part of...):
Slovak Republic; Slovakia (a landlocked republic in central Europe; separated from the Czech Republic in 1993)
Romania; Roumania; Rumania (a republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea)
Poland; Polska; Republic of Poland (a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II)
Ukraine; Ukrayina (a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century)
