Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- A major mountain system of central Europe in Slovakia, the extreme eastern Czech Republic, southern Poland, western Ukraine, and northeast Romania. Extending in an arc about 1450 km (900 mi) long, the range links the Alps with the Balkan Mountains and is a popular year-round resort area.
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- proper noun
Carpathians
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a mountain range in central Europe that extends from Slovakia and southern Poland southeastward through western Ukraine to northeastern Romania; a popular resort area
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Examples
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A ridge of hills, rising from the Danube, and called the Carpathian Mountains, covered Germany on the side of Dacia or Hungary.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765
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Danube, and called the Carpathian Mountains, covered Germany on the side of Dacia or Hungary.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 1 Edward Gibbon 1765
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The winters are pitiless here-in the Carpathian Mountains, Dracula lived, remember.
LVIV James Robison 2011
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Paul is nearly catatonic with sadness over a broken romance, but Nora sees something in him worth rescuing and persuades him to leave the decadent city to take a ski holiday in the Carpathian Mountains.
Tender and Tense Sam Sacks 2011
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Paul is nearly catatonic with sadness over a broken romance, but Nora sees something in him worth rescuing and persuades him to leave the decadent city to take a ski holiday in the Carpathian Mountains.
Tender and Tense Sam Sacks 2011
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Speaking during an annual Gypsy feast held on a hill at the foots of the Carpathian Mountains, Iulian Radulescu told The Associated Press that Gypsies – also known as Roma – are being unfairly expelled from France.
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Speaking during an annual Gypsy feast held on a hill at the foots of the Carpathian Mountains, Iulian Radulescu told The Associated Press that Gypsies – also known as Roma – are being unfairly expelled from France.
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Speaking during an annual Gypsy feast held on a hill at the foots of the Carpathian Mountains, Iulian Radulescu told The Associated Press that Gypsies – also known as Roma – are being unfairly expelled from France.
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The largest and most powerful army, the 9th, was opposite Romania, where it could strike directly at Bucharest and the oilfields, as the land on the east of the Carpathian Mountains was the same rich cultivated landscape as in Ukraine.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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The largest and most powerful army, the 9th, was opposite Romania, where it could strike directly at Bucharest and the oilfields, as the land on the east of the Carpathian Mountains was the same rich cultivated landscape as in Ukraine.
Deathride John Mosier 2010
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