ROMANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Romania mean? 

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

1. a republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROMANIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Romania; Roumania; Rumania

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Romania"):

Brasov (a city in central Romania in the foothills of the Transylvanian Alps)

Bucharest; Bucharesti; Bucuresti; capital of Romania (national capital and largest city of Romania in southeastern Romania)

Constantina (a Romanian resort city on the Black Sea)

Carpathian Mountains; Carpathians (a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area)

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

Transylvanian Alps (a range of the southern Carpathian Mountains extending across central Romania)

Meronyms (members of "Romania"):

Romanian; Rumanian (a native or inhabitant of Romania)

Holonyms ("Romania" 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:

Romanian (of or relating to or characteristic of the country of Romania or its people or languages)

 Context examples 

A country in Central Europe, northwest of Romania.

(Hungary, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in southeastern Europe, bordering the Black Sea, between Romania and Turkey.

(Bulgaria, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in central Europe, northwest of Romania and south of Slovakia.

(Hungary, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Eastern Europe, northeast of Romania.

(Moldova, Republic of, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in eastern Europe, northeast of Romania.

(Moldova, Republic of, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person having origins in a country such as Italy, Greece, Romania, Turkey, and Bulgaria.

(Mediterranean, NCI Thesaurus)

Countries like Romania, Poland and Bulgaria experienced massive workforce migration to Western European countries and they are showing negative population growth rates over most of the last decade.

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

Researchers from the Emil Racoviță Institute of Speleology in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, and University of South Florida's School of Geosciences gathered their evidence in the world's most-explored ice cave and oldest cave glacier, hidden deep in the heart of Transylvania in central Romania.

(Ice cave in Transylvania yields window into region's past, NSF)