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SLOVAKIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A landlocked republic in central Europe; separated from the Czech Republic in 1993
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 "Slovakia"):
Bratislava; capital of Slovakia; Pozsony; Pressburg (capital and largest city of Slovakia)
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)
Meronyms (members of "Slovakia"):
Slovak (a native or inhabitant of Slovakia)
Holonyms ("Slovakia" 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:
Slovakian (of or relating to or characteristic of Slovakia or its people or language)