SARAJEVO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sarajevo mean? 

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

1. capital and largest city of Bosnia; scene of the assassination of Francis Ferdinand in 1914 which precipitated World War I

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SARAJEVO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Capital and largest city of Bosnia; scene of the assassination of Francis Ferdinand in 1914 which precipitated World War I

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)

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

Bosna i Hercegovina; Bosnia; Bosnia-Herzegovina; Bosnia and Herzegovina; Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims)