Moravia

American  

[maw-rey-vee-uh, -rah-, moh-, maw-rah-vyah] / mɔˈreɪ vi ə, -ˈrɑ-, moʊ-, mɔˈrɑ vyɑ /

noun

1. Alberto Alberto Pincherle, 1907–90, Italian writer.

2. German Mähren.  Czech Morava.  a region in the E Czech Republic: former province of Austria.

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Moravia ¹ British  

/ məˈreɪvɪə, mɒ- /

noun

1. German name: Mähren.  Czech name: Morava.  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

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Moravia ² British  

/ moˈraːvja /

noun

1. 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)

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Example Sentences

The stone blades at Ranis, referred to as leaf points, are similar to stone tools found at several sites in Moravia, Poland, Germany and the United Kingdom.

From Science Daily • Jan. 31, 2024

The field “is really blooming,” agrees Zuzana Hofmanová, an EVA geneticist who is working on reconstructing the social structure of medieval Moravia using the bones of people buried under Czech and Slovak churches.

From Science Magazine • Oct. 4, 2023

The son of a Jewish art dealer in what was then Moravia, Grünbaum studied law but began performing in cabarets in Vienna in 1906.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 14, 2023

A toxic dump that was a fixture of one neighborhood was replaced with the Moravia Cultural Center, which offers arts programming and is surrounded by parks and gardens.

From New York Times • Mar. 16, 2023

Five months later, on March 15, 1939, he sent German troops into Bohemia and Moravia, also regions of Czechoslovakia.

From "Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti