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LITHUANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lithuania mean? 

LITHUANIA (noun)
  The noun LITHUANIA has 1 sense:

1. a republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Seaplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


LITHUANIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in northeastern Europe on the Baltic Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Lietuva; Lithuania; Republic of Lithuania

Instance hypernyms:

Baltic Republic; Baltic State (European countries bordering the Baltic Sea)

Meronyms (parts of "Lithuania"):

Klaipeda; Memel (a city in western Lithuania on the Baltic Sea; formerly an important trading town of the Hanseatic League)

capital of Lithuania; Vilna; Vilnius; Vilno; Wilno (the capital and largest city of Lithuania; located in southeastern Lithuania)

Kaunas; Kovna; Kovno (a city in central Lithuania)

Meronyms (members of "Lithuania"):

Lithuanian (a native or inhabitant of Lithuania)

Derivation:

Lithuanian (of or relating to or characteristic of Lithuania or its people or language)


 Context examples 


A country in eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Estonia and Lithuania.

(Latvia, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Eastern Europe, bordering the Baltic Sea, between Estonia and Lithuania.

(Latvia, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

It chanced, however, that a knight of Poitou, Sir Gaston d'Estelle, was staying there on his way back from Lithuania, where he had served a term with the Teutonic knights under the land-master of the presbytery of Marienberg.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Here fluttered many an outland pennon, bearing symbol and blazonry from the banks of the Danube, the wilds of Lithuania and the mountain strongholds of Hungary; for chivalry was of no clime and of no race, nor was any land so wild that the fame and name of the prince had not sounded through it from border to border.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)



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