CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carpathian Mountains mean? 

• CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS (noun)
  The noun CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS has 1 sense:

1. a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area

  Familiarity information: CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARPATHIAN MOUNTAINS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Carpathian Mountains; Carpathians

Instance hypernyms:

chain; chain of mountains; mountain chain; mountain range; range; range of mountains (a series of hills or mountains)

Meronyms (parts of "Carpathian Mountains"):

Transylvanian Alps (a range of the southern Carpathian Mountains extending across central Romania)

Holonyms ("Carpathian Mountains" is a part of...):

Slovak Republic; Slovakia (a landlocked republic in central Europe; separated from the Czech Republic in 1993)

Romania; Roumania; Rumania (a republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea)

Poland; Polska; Republic of Poland (a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II)

Ukraine; Ukrayina (a republic in southeastern Europe; formerly a European soviet; the center of the original Russian state which came into existence in the ninth century)