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Definition of Transylvania in English: Transylvaniaproper nounˌtransɪlˈveɪnɪəˌtræn(t)səlˈveɪnjə A large tableland region of NW Romania, separated from the rest of the country by the Carpathian Mountains and the Transylvanian Alps. Part of Hungary until it became a principality of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, it was returned to Hungary at the end of the 17th century and was incorporated into Romania in 1918.
Origin Based on Latin trans 'across, beyond' + silva 'forest'. Rhymes Albania, balletomania, bibliomania, crania, dipsomania, egomania, erotomania, kleptomania, Lithuania, Lusitania, mania, Mauritania, megalomania, miscellanea, monomania, nymphomania, Pennsylvania, Pomerania, pyromania, Rainier, Romania, Ruritania, Tasmania, Urania Definition of Transylvania in US English: Transylvaniaproper nounˌtræn(t)səlˈveɪnjəˌtran(t)səlˈvānyə 1A large tableland region of northwestern Romania, separated from the rest of the country by the Carpathian Mountains and the Transylvanian Alps. Part of Hungary until it became a principality of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, it was returned to Hungary at the end of the 17th century and was incorporated into Romania in 1918. 2(in US history) an unrecognized fourteenth colony that was proposed in the 1770s in what is now central Kentucky and neighboring Tennessee.
Origin Based on Latin trans ‘across, beyond’ + silva ‘forest’. |