PREUSSEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Preussen mean? 

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

1. a former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREUSSEN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A former kingdom in north-central Europe including present-day northern Germany and northern Poland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Preussen; Prussia

Context example:

in the 19th century Prussia led the economic and political unification of the German states

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Preussen"):

Brandenburg (the territory of an Elector (of the Holy Roman Empire) that expanded to become the kingdom of Prussia in 1701)

Meronyms (members of "Preussen"):

Prussian (a German inhabitant of Prussia)

Holonyms ("Preussen" 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)

Poland; Polska; Republic of Poland (a republic in central Europe; the invasion of Poland by Germany in 1939 started World War II)