noun
1. a mountainous republic in southeastern Europe bordering on the Adriatic Sea; formed from two of the six republics that made up Yugoslavia until 1992; Serbia and Montenegro were known as the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia until 2003 when they adopted the name of the Union of Serbia and Montenegro (Freq. 1)
• Syn: ↑Serbia and Montenegro, ↑Union of Serbia and Montenegro, ↑Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, ↑Jugoslavija
• Derivationally related forms: ↑Yugoslavian
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑European country, ↑European nation
• Member Meronyms: ↑Yugoslav, ↑Jugoslav, ↑Yugoslavian, ↑Jugoslavian
• Part Meronyms:
↑Serbia, ↑Srbija, ↑Montenegro, ↑Crna Gora, ↑Belgrade, ↑Beograd, ↑capital of Serbia and Montenegro, ↑Danube, ↑Danube River, ↑Danau
2. a former country of southeastern Europe bordering the Adriatic Sea; formed in 1918 and named Yugoslavia in 1929; controlled by Marshal Tito as a communist state until his death in 1980
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Tito's Yugoslavia included Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro
• Instance Hypernyms: ↑European country, ↑European nation
Useful english dictionary. 2012.