HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Holy Roman Empire mean? 

• HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE (noun)
  The noun HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE has 1 sense:

1. a political entity in Europe that began with the papal coronation of Otto I as the first emperor in 962 and lasted until 1806 when it was dissolved by Napoleon

  Familiarity information: HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A political entity in Europe that began with the papal coronation of Otto I as the first emperor in 962 and lasted until 1806 when it was dissolved by Napoleon

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Holy Roman Empire" is a kind of...):

political entity; political unit (a unit with political responsibilities)

Holonyms ("Holy Roman Empire" 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)