UNION OF SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Union of Serbia and Montenegro mean? 

• UNION OF SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO (noun)
  The noun UNION OF SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: UNION OF SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNION OF SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; Jugoslavija; Serbia and Montenegro; Union of Serbia and Montenegro; Yugoslavia

Instance hypernyms:

European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Union of Serbia and Montenegro"):

Serbia; Srbija (a historical region in central and northern Yugoslavia; Serbs settled the region in the 6th and 7th centuries)

Crna Gora; Montenegro (a former country bordering on the Adriatic Sea; now part of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro)

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

Danau; Danube; Danube River (the 2nd longest European river (after the Volga); flows from southwestern Germany to the Black Sea)

Meronyms (members of "Union of Serbia and Montenegro"):

Jugoslav; Jugoslavian; Yugoslav; Yugoslavian (a native or inhabitant of Yugoslavia)