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BALKAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Balkan mean?
• BALKAN (noun)
The noun BALKAN has 1 sense:
1. an inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula
Familiarity information: BALKAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
An inhabitant of the Balkan Peninsula
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Balkan" is a kind of...):
European (a native or inhabitant of Europe)
Holonyms ("Balkan" is a member of...):
Balkan Peninsula; Balkans (a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range)
Context examples
A chronic tubulointerstitial nephropathy that affects people in certain rural areas along the Danube river in the Balkans.
(Balkan Endemic Nephropathy, NCI Thesaurus)
Sometimes we saw him passing in lonely majesty to his inner sanctum, with his eyes staring vaguely and his mind hovering over the Balkans or the Persian Gulf.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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