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IRREDENTA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does irredenta mean?
• IRREDENTA (noun)
The noun IRREDENTA has 1 sense:
1. a region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another
Familiarity information: IRREDENTA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A region that is related ethnically or historically to one country but is controlled politically by another
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
irredenta; irridenta
Hypernyms ("irredenta" is a kind of...):
region (a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth)
Derivation:
irredentist; irridentist (an advocate of irredentism)
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