MONTENEGRO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Montenegro mean? 

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

1. a former country bordering on the Adriatic Sea; now part of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MONTENEGRO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former country bordering on the Adriatic Sea; now part of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Crna Gora; Montenegro

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Montenegro" is a part of...):

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Jugoslavija; Serbia and Montenegro; Union of Serbia and Montenegro; Yugoslavia (a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro)

 Context examples 

Orderi di Danilo, ran the circular legend, Montenegro, Nicolas Rex.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The smile comprehended Montenegro's troubled history and sympathized with the brave struggles of the Montenegrin people.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

It appreciated fully the chain of national circumstances which had elicited this tribute from Montenegro's warm little heart.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I was promoted to be a major and every Allied government gave me a decoration—even Montenegro, little Montenegro down on the Adriatic Sea!

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Little Montenegro!

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

That's the one from Montenegro.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)