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    YUGOSLAVIA

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A former country of southeastern Europe bordering the Adriatic Sea; formed in 1918 and named Yugoslavia in 1929; controlled by Marshal Tito as a communist state until his death in 1980play

    Example:

    Tito's Yugoslavia included Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

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

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegroplay

    Synonyms:

    Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Jugoslavija; Serbia and Montenegro; Union of Serbia and Montenegro; Yugoslavia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

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

    Meronyms (parts of "Yugoslavia"):

    Serbia; Srbija (a historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia; Serbs settled the region in the 6th and 7th centuries)

    Crna Gora; Montenegro (a former country bordering on the Adriatic Sea; now part of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro)

    Belgrade; Beograd; capital of Serbia and Montenegro (capital and largest city of Serbia and Montenegro; situated on the Danube)

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

    Meronyms (members of "Yugoslavia"):

    Jugoslav; Jugoslavian; Yugoslav; Yugoslavian (a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia)

    Derivation:

    Yugoslavian (of or relating to or characteristic of the former country of Yugoslavia or its people or languages)

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