MOLDOVA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Moldova mean? 

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

1. a landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet but achieved independence in 1991

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MOLDOVA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet but achieved independence in 1991

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Moldavia; Moldova; Republic of Moldova

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Moldova"):

capital of Moldova; Chisinau; Kishinev (the capital of Moldova)

Holonyms ("Moldova" 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)

Holonyms ("Moldova" is a member of...):

CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)

Derivation:

Moldovan (of or relating to or characteristic of Moldova or its people or culture)