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Associations to the word «Yugoslavia»

Wiktionary

YUGOSLAVIA, proper noun. A former country on the Balkan Peninsula, made up of the now-independent nations of Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, and Croatia; it disintegrated in the 1990s.

Dictionary definition

YUGOSLAVIA, noun. 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.
YUGOSLAVIA, noun. 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; "Tito's Yugoslavia included Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Serbia, and Montenegro".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats