HUNGARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Hungary mean? 

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

1. a republic in central Europe

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUNGARY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in central Europe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Hungary; Magyarorszag; Republic of Hungary

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Hungary"):

Budapest; capital of Hungary; Hungarian capital (capital and largest city of Hungary; located on the Danube River in north-central Hungary)

Balaton; Lake Balaton; Plattensee (a large shallow lake in western Hungary)

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

Meronyms (members of "Hungary"):

Hungarian; Magyar (a native or inhabitant of Hungary)

Holonyms ("Hungary" 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)

Derivation:

Hungarian (relating to or characteristic of Hungary)

 Context examples 

There are thousands of them in Hungary and Transylvania, who are almost outside all law.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Negative growth rates are also occurring in Hungary and Croatia, but the decrease rate slowed down in 2008-2009 compared to 2007-2008.

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

He said he expects no political turmoil between the neighboring Austria and Hungary over the sale.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)

Denotes a person having origins in any of the countries of Eastern Europe such as Czechoslovakia, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Former Soviet Union, or Finland.

(Eastern European, NCI Thesaurus)

The research team, co-led by Ed Lein, Ph.D., Investigator at the Allen Institute for Brain Science and Gábor Tamás, Ph.D., a neuroscientist at the University of Szeged in Szeged, Hungary, has uncovered a new type of human brain cell that has never been seen in mice and other well-studied laboratory animals.

(Mysterious New Type of Human Brain Cell Discovered, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Here fluttered many an outland pennon, bearing symbol and blazonry from the banks of the Danube, the wilds of Lithuania and the mountain strongholds of Hungary; for chivalry was of no clime and of no race, nor was any land so wild that the fame and name of the prince had not sounded through it from border to border.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

To modernize its military, in 2018, Hungary licensed Czech firearm technology and started assembling firearms in Kiskunfélegyháza, then agreed with Airbus to open a helicopter parts factory as a joint venture in Gyula.

(Hungarian state-owned enterprise acquires Hirtenberger Defence Group, Wikinews)