BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bosnia and Herzegovina mean? 

• BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (noun)
  The noun BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA has 1 sense:

1. a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims

  Familiarity information: BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bosna i Hercegovina; Bosnia; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Bosnia and Herzegovina"):

Bosnia (the northern part of Bosnia-Herzegovina)

Sarajevo (capital and largest city of Bosnia; scene of the assassination of Francis Ferdinand in 1914 which precipitated World War I)

 Context examples 

A country in southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Bosnia and Herzegovina and Slovenia.

(Croatia, NCI Thesaurus)