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BELGRADE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Belgrade mean? 

BELGRADE (noun)
  The noun BELGRADE has 1 sense:

1. capital and largest city of Serbia and Montenegro; situated on the Danubeplay

  Familiarity information: BELGRADE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


BELGRADE (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital and largest city of Serbia and Montenegro; situated on the Danube

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Belgrade; Beograd; capital of Serbia and Montenegro

Instance hypernyms:

national capital (the capital city of a nation)

Holonyms ("Belgrade" is a part of...):

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

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


 Context examples 


The genus has one recognized group (Hantaan group) consisting of several species including Dobrava-Belgrade virus, Seoul virus, Prospect Hill virus, Puumala virus, Thottapalayam virus, and HANTAAN VIRUS, the type species.

(Hantavirus, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Letter from Lord Merrow, report from Sir Charles Hardy, memorandum from Belgrade, note on the Russo-German grain taxes, letter from Madrid, note from Lord Flowers——Good heavens! what is this?

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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