BULGARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bulgaria mean? 

• BULGARIA (noun)
  The noun BULGARIA has 1 sense:

1. a republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BULGARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bulgaria; Republic of Bulgaria

Instance hypernyms:

Balkan country; Balkan nation; Balkan state (any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula)

Meronyms (parts of "Bulgaria"):

Bulgarian capital; Serdica; Sofia (capital and largest city of Bulgaria located in western Bulgaria)

Philippopolis; Plovdiv (an ancient city in southern Bulgaria; commercial center of an agricultural region)

Varna (a port city in northeastern Bulgaria on the Black Sea)

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

Meronyms (members of "Bulgaria"):

Bulgarian (a native or inhabitant of Bulgaria)

Domain member region:

Pleven; Plevna (the town was taken from the Turks by the Russians in 1877 after a siege of 143 days)

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

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Holonyms ("Bulgaria" is a member of...):

NATO; North Atlantic Treaty Organization (an international organization created in 1949 by the North Atlantic Treaty for purposes of collective security)

Derivation:

Bulgarian (of or relating to or characteristic of Bulgaria or its people)

 Context examples 

Denotes a person having origins in a country such as Italy, Greece, Romania, Turkey, and Bulgaria.

(Mediterranean, NCI Thesaurus)

A similar process occurred the same year in Bulgaria, PGR dropping from -0.51% to -3.17%, and one year earlier in Poland, where PGR dropped from -0.03% in 2000 to -1.03% in 2001.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)

A country in southeastern Europe, north of Greece, between Albania and Bulgaria.

(Macedonia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of, NCI Thesaurus)

Countries like Romania, Poland and Bulgaria experienced massive workforce migration to Western European countries and they are showing negative population growth rates over most of the last decade.

(Is the Global Crisis Triggering Basic Instincts?, BOGDAN FLORIN PAUL)