CARPATHIANS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Carpathians mean? 

• CARPATHIANS (noun)
  The noun CARPATHIANS 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: CARPATHIANS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CARPATHIANS (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 "Carpathians"):

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

Holonyms ("Carpathians" 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)

 Context examples 

I asked the waiter, and he said it was called paprika hendl, and that, as it was a national dish, I should be able to get it anywhere along the Carpathians.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I was indeed awake and among the Carpathians.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In this respect it is different from the general run of roads in the Carpathians, for it is an old tradition that they are not to be kept in too good order.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Beyond the green swelling hills of the Mittel Land rose mighty slopes of forest up to the lofty steeps of the Carpathians themselves.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He went, but immediately returned with a letter: —My Friend. Welcome to the Carpathians. I am anxiously expecting you. Sleep well to-night.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

We took it, that somewhere about the 47th degree, north latitude, would be the place chosen for the crossing the country between the river and the Carpathians.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

The country gets wilder as we go, and the great spurs of the Carpathians, which at Veresti seemed so far from us and so low on the horizon, now seem to gather round us and tower in front.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I read that every known superstition in the world is gathered into the horseshoe of the Carpathians, as if it were the centre of some sort of imaginative whirlpool; if so my stay may be very interesting.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness, which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)