PRUSSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Prussia mean? 

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

1. a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRUSSIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Preussen; Prussia

Context example:

in the 19th century Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Prussia"):

Brandenburg (the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701)

Meronyms (members of "Prussia"):

Prussian (a German inhabitant of Prussia)

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

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

Poland; Polska; Republic of Poland (a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II)

Derivation:

Prussian (of or relating to or characteristic of Prussia or its inhabitants)

 Context examples 

Whatever it was, he was ready for it, whether it were to hold the lists in the court of the King of Tartary, to carry a cartel to the Sultan of Baghdad, or to serve a term against the wild heathen of Prussia.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)