TRANSYLVANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Transylvania mean? 

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

1. a historical plateau region in northwestern Romania that is separated from the rest of the country by the Transylvanian Alps; originally part of Hungary; incorporated into Romania at the end of World War I

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSYLVANIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A historical plateau region in northwestern Romania that is separated from the rest of the country by the Transylvanian Alps; originally part of Hungary; incorporated into Romania at the end of World War I

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

 Context examples 

It is all so wild, and mysterious, and strange that if I had not known Jonathan's experience in Transylvania I could not have believed.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Ice cores drilled from a glacier in a cave in Transylvania offer new evidence of how Europe's winter weather and climate patterns fluctuated during the last 10,000 years, known as the Holocene period.

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

He, our enemy, have gone away; he have gone back to his Castle in Transylvania.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

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)

I said I was sure of this, and then he went on:—We are in Transylvania; and Transylvania is not England.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Can you tell me what went before your going to Transylvania?

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

In the summer of this year we made a journey to Transylvania, and went over the old ground which was, and is, to us so full of vivid and terrible memories.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I have just had a few hurried lines from Jonathan from Transylvania.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

There are thousands of them in Hungary and Transylvania, who are almost outside all law.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I asked him a few questions on Transylvania history, and he warmed up to the subject wonderfully.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)