Dictionary.com
Thesaurus.com
Showing results for Carpatho-Ukraine. Search instead for Map+of+Ukraine.

Carpatho-Ukraine

American  
[kahr-pey-thoh-yoo-kreyn] / kɑrˈpeɪ θoʊ yuˈkreɪn /

noun

  1. a region in W Ukraine: ceded by Czechoslovakia in 1945.


Carpatho-Ukraine British  
/ kɑːˈpeɪθəʊjuːˈkreɪn /

noun

  1. another name for Ruthenia

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

After Munich, Ruthenia, easternmost district of Czecho-Slovakia, now called the Carpatho-Ukraine, became an "autonomous" region with only loose connections with Prague but with very definite though unofficial links with Berlin.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mountainous and largely barren, the Carpatho-Ukraine was obviously expected to produce for Germany political rather than economic results.

From Time Magazine Archive

But the Ukrainian Nationalist Guards of Carpatho-Ukraine, armed at the last minute by Premier Augustin Volosin, long a Ukrainian nationalist leader, put up a stiff resistance.

From Time Magazine Archive

Czech soldiers in Carpatho-Ukraine, having learned that Bohemia was a German province, bee-lined for the Rumanian border, where they surrendered their arms and were interned.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hungary and Poland also covet the strategic Carpatho-Ukraine, and there have been border fights on both frontiers of the territory.

From Time Magazine Archive

Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember "Carpatho-Ukraine" for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com