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CRIMEA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Crimea mean?
• CRIMEA (noun)
The noun CRIMEA has 1 sense:
1. a Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
Familiarity information: CRIMEA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A Ukrainian peninsula between the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)
Meronyms (parts of "Crimea"):
Sebastopol; Sevastopol (a city in southern Ukraine on the Black Sea)
Yalta (a resort city in Crimea in the southern Ukraine on the Black Sea; site of the Allied conference between Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill in February 1945)
Domain member region:
Crimean War (a war in Crimea between Russia and a group of nations including England and France and Turkey and Sardinia; 1853-1856)
Holonyms ("Crimea" is a part of...):
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
It did wonders both in the Crimea and the Mutiny, and has since that time distinguished itself upon every possible occasion.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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