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ROUMANIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea
Synonyms:
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)