BALKAN STATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Balkan state mean? 

• BALKAN STATE (noun)
  The noun BALKAN STATE has 1 sense:

1. any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula

  Familiarity information: BALKAN STATE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BALKAN STATE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any one of the countries on the Balkan Peninsula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Balkan country; Balkan nation; Balkan state

Hypernyms ("Balkan state" is a kind of...):

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Balkan state"):

Greece (ancient Greece; a country of city-states (especially Athens and Sparta) that reached its peak in the fifth century BCE)

Instance hyponyms:

Albania; Republic of Albania (a republic in southeastern Europe on the Adriatic coast of the Balkan Peninsula)

Bulgaria; Republic of Bulgaria (a republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe)

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)

Macedonia (landlocked republic on the Balkan Peninsula; achieved independence from Yugoslavia in 1991)

Holonyms ("Balkan state" is a part of...):

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