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CRIMEA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Crimea"):
Sebastopol; Sevastopol (a city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea)
Yalta (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)
Domain member region:
Crimean War (a war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia; 1853-1856)
Holonyms ("Crimea" is a part of...):
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)
