MOLDAVIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Moldavia mean? 

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

1. a landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet but achieved independence in 1991

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOLDAVIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet but achieved independence in 1991

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Moldavia; Moldova; Republic of Moldova

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Moldavia"):

capital of Moldova; Chisinau; Kishinev (the capital of Moldova)

Holonyms ("Moldavia" 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)

Holonyms ("Moldavia" is a member of...):

CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)

 Context examples 

I find that the district he named is in the extreme east of the country, just on the borders of three states, Transylvania, Moldavia and Bukovina, in the midst of the Carpathian mountains; one of the wildest and least known portions of Europe.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)