SERBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Serbia mean? 

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

1. a historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia; Serbs settled the region in the 6th and 7th centuries

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERBIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia; Serbs settled the region in the 6th and 7th centuries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Serbia; Srbija

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Serbia"):

Kosovo (a Serbian province in southern Serbia and Montenegro populated predominantly by Albanians)

Belgrade; Beograd; capital of Serbia and Montenegro (capital and largest city of Serbia and Montenegro; situated on the Danube)

Meronyms (members of "Serbia"):

Serb; Serbian (a member of a Slavic people who settled in Serbia and neighboring areas in the 6th and 7th centuries)

Holonyms ("Serbia" 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)

Derivation:

Serbian (of or relating to the people or language or culture of the region of Serbia)

 Context examples 

A country in southeastern Europe, bordering the Adriatic Sea, between Croatia and Serbia.

(Bosnia and Herzegovina, NCI Thesaurus)