Moravia

[ maw-rey-vee-uh, -rah-, moh-; Italian maw-rah-vyah ]

noun

1. Al·ber·to [ahl-, ber, -taw], Alberto Pincherle, 1907–90, Italian writer.
2. Czech Morava. German Mähren. a region in the E Czech Republic: former province of Austria.

Moravia

¹

/ moˈraːvja /

noun

1. MoraviaAlberto19071990MItalianWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer Alberto (alˈbɛrto), pen name of Alberto Pincherle. 1907–90, Italian novelist and short-story writer: his works include The Time of Indifference (1929), The Woman of Rome (1949), The Lie (1966), and Erotic Tales (1985)

Moravia

²

/ məˈreɪvɪə; mɒ- /

noun

1. a region of the Czech Republic around the Morava River, bounded by the Bohemian-Moravian Highlands, the Sudeten Mountains, and the W Carpathians: became a separate Austrian crownland in 1848; part of Czechoslovakia 1918–92; valuable mineral resources Czech nameMorava German nameMähren

Example Sentences

The government of Moravia has also, within the past year, granted the municipal franchise to widows who pay taxes.

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Silesia and Moravia, the adjoining provinces to Bohemia, followed their example, and did homage to Frederick.

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Silesia had already joined the insurgents in Bohemia; Moravia was on the point of following its example.

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The Estates did homage without conditions, and the same was done by those of Silesia and Moravia.

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He was present as colonel at the battle of Prague, and afterwards, as major-general, had defeated a Hungarian force in Moravia.

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