CZECHOSLOVAKIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Czechoslovakia mean? 

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

1. a former republic in central Europe; divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CZECHOSLOVAKIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former republic in central Europe; divided into Czech Republic and Slovakia in 1993

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Czechoslovakia"):

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

Meronyms (members of "Czechoslovakia"):

Czech; Czechoslovak; Czechoslovakian (a native or inhabitant of the former republic of Czechoslovakia)

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

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

Derivation:

Czechoslovakian (of or relating to Czechoslovakia or its people or their language)

 Context examples 

Denotes a person having origins in any of the countries of Eastern Europe such as Czechoslovakia, Poland, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Former Soviet Union, or Finland.

(Eastern European, NCI Thesaurus)