BALTIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Baltic mean? 

• BALTIC (noun)
  The noun BALTIC has 2 senses:

1. a sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy

2. a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European

  Familiarity information: BALTIC used as a noun is rare.

• BALTIC (adjective)
  The adjective BALTIC has 2 senses:

1. of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baltic States or their peoples or languages

2. of or near or on the Baltic Sea

  Familiarity information: BALTIC used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALTIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Baltic; Baltic Sea

Instance hypernyms:

sea (a division of an ocean or a large body of salt water partially enclosed by land)

Meronyms (parts of "Baltic"):

Gulf of Bothnia (a northern arm of the Baltic Sea; between Sweden and Finland)

Gulf of Finland (an eastern arm of the Baltic Sea; between Finland and Estonia)

Gulf of Riga (an inlet of the Baltic Sea between Latvia and Estonia)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

Baltic; Baltic language

Hypernyms ("Baltic" is a kind of...):

Balto-Slavic; Balto-Slavic language; Balto-Slavonic (a family of Indo-European languages including the Slavic and Baltic languages)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Baltic"):

Old Prussian (a dead language of the (non-German) Prussians (extinct after 1700); thought to belong to the Baltic branch of Indo-European)

Lithuanian (the official language of Lithuania; belongs to the Baltic branch of Indo-European)

Latvian; Lettish (the official language of Latvia; belongs to the Baltic branch of Indo-European)

Derivation:

Baltic (of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baltic States or their peoples or languages)

• BALTIC (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of the Baltic States or their peoples or languages

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

Baltic State (European countries bordering the Baltic Sea)

Derivation:

Baltic (a branch of the Indo-European family of languages related to the Slavonic languages; Baltic languages have preserved many archaic features that are believed to have existed in Proto-Indo European)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Of or near or on the Baltic Sea

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Context example:

The Baltic republics

Pertainym:

Baltic Sea (a sea in northern Europe; stronghold of the Russian navy)

 Context examples 

A country in Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Estonia and Lithuania.

(Latvia, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Latvia and Russia.

(Lithuania, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Latvia and Russia.

(Lithuania, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Estonia and Lithuania.

(Latvia, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in central Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, between the Netherlands and Poland, south of Denmark.

(Germany, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, consisting of a peninsula on the north coast of Germany and several major islands.

(Denmark, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Northern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and the North Sea, on a peninsula north of Germany (Jutland); also includes two major islands (Sjaelland and Fyn).

(Denmark, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea and Gulf of Finland, between Latvia and Finland.

(Estonia, NCI Thesaurus)

An archipelago in the Baltic Sea at the entrance to the Gulf of Bothnia between Sweden and Finland.

(Aland Islands, NCI Thesaurus)

It did not surprise me, therefore, that we should find the large room in which we supped crowded with naval men, but I remember that what did cause me some astonishment was to observe that all these sailors, who had served under the most varying conditions in all quarters of the globe, from the Baltic to the East Indies, should have been moulded into so uniform a type that they were more like each other than brother is commonly to brother.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)