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ROUMANIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea

Synonyms:

Romania; Roumania; Rumania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Roumania"):

Brasov (a city in central Romania in the foothills of the Transylvanian Alps)

Bucharest; Bucharesti; Bucuresti; capital of Romania (national capital and largest city of Romania in southeastern Romania)

Constantina (a Romanian resort city on the Black Sea)

Carpathian Mountains; Carpathians (a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area)

Danau; Danube; Danube River (the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea)

Transylvanian Alps (a range of the southern Carpathian Mountains extending across central Romania)

Meronyms (members of "Roumania"):

Romanian; Rumanian (a native or inhabitant of Romania)

Holonyms ("Roumania" 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)

Derivation:

Roumanian (of or relating to or characteristic of the country of Romania or its people or languages)

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