BAVARIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bavaria mean? 

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

1. a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BAVARIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Bavaria"):

Hohenlinden (a town in Bavaria (near Munich))

Muenchen; Munich (the capital and largest city of Bavaria in southwestern Germany)

Domain member region:

battle of Hohenlinden; Hohenlinden (a battle during the Napoleonic Wars (1800); the French defeated the Austrians)

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

Deutschland; Federal Republic of Germany; FRG; Germany (a republic in central Europe; split into East Germany and West Germany after World War II and reunited in 1990)

Derivation:

Bavarian (a native or an inhabitant of Bavaria)

Bavarian (of or relating to or characteristic of Bavaria or its people)