THRACE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Thrace mean? 

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

1. an ancient country and wine producing region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula to the north of the Aegean Sea; colonized by ancient Greeks; later a Roman province; now divided between Bulgaria and Greece and Turkey

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THRACE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An ancient country and wine producing region in the east of the Balkan Peninsula to the north of the Aegean Sea; colonized by ancient Greeks; later a Roman province; now divided between Bulgaria and Greece and Turkey

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (members of "Thrace"):

Thracian (an inhabitant of ancient Thrace)

Domain member region:

battle of Lule Burgas; Lule Burgas (the principal battle of the Balkan Wars (1912); Bulgarian forces defeated the Turks)

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

Balkan Peninsula; Balkans (a large peninsula in southeastern Europe containing the Balkan Mountain Range)