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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • A region and former duchy of southern Germany. Long an influential constituent of the Holy Roman Empire, Bavaria became a kingdom upon the dissolution of the empire (1806), before being incorporated into the new German Empire (1871).

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • proper noun A state in southern Germany.

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  • proper noun A historical region in Middle Europe.
  • proper noun The kingdom of Bavaria.
  • proper noun One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation, which includes the historical Bavaria and parts of Swabia and Franconia.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a state in southern Germany famous for its beer; site of an automobile factory

Etymologies

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Medieval Latin, from Baioarii 'Bavarians', from Late Latin Bojuvarii, literally, 'Boii settlers', compound of Gaulish Boii 'the Boii tribe' and Proto-Germanic *warjaz 'settler' (cf. Old Norse verjar 'defender, settler'), from Proto Indo-European (cf. Welsh gwerin 'crowd', Sanskrit vṛndám 'group, troop, crowd'). This name was adopted by the Marcomanni after defeating the Boii and settling Bohemia and parts of Bavaria.

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