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BAVARIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Bavaria"):
Hohenlinden (a town in Bavaria (near Munich))
Muenchen; Munich (the capital and largest city of Bavaria in southwestern Germany)
Domain member region:
battle of Hohenlinden; Hohenlinden (a battle during the Napoleonic Wars (1800); the French defeated the Austrians)
Holonyms ("Bavaria" is a part of...):
Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)
Derivation:
Bavarian (a native or an inhabitant of Bavaria)
Bavarian (of or relating to or characteristic of Bavaria or its people)