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ROUMANIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Roumanian mean?
• ROUMANIAN (adjective)
The adjective ROUMANIAN has 1 sense:
1. of or relating to or characteristic of the country of Romania or its people or languages
Familiarity information: ROUMANIAN used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Of or relating to or characteristic of the country of Romania or its people or languages
Classified under:
Relational adjectives (pertainyms)
Synonyms:
Context example:
Romanian folk music
Pertainym:
Romania (a republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea)
Derivation:
Roumania (a republic in southeastern Europe with a short coastline on the Black Sea)
Context examples
We saw in this a way of smoothing matters, so at Fundu, where the Bistritza runs into the Sereth, we got a Roumanian flag which we now fly conspicuously.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mate now more demoralised than either of men. His stronger nature seems to have worked inwardly against himself. Men are beyond fear, working stolidly and patiently, with minds made up to worst. They are Russian, he Roumanian.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
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