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bloodlands

bloodlands noun: a region comprising modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic states, where the 20th-century regimes of Stalin and Hitler interacted to cause significant suffering and bloodshed.

Noun

bloodlands pl (plural only)

  1. (plural, plural-only) A region comprising modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic states, where the 20th-century regimes of Stalin and Hitler interacted to cause significant suffering and bloodshed.

Origin of bloodlands

From blood + lands, coined as the title of a book, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin (2010), by Yale historian Timothy D. Snyder.

Questions about bloodlands

What does bloodlands mean?
Bloodlands means a region comprising modern-day Poland, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia and the Baltic states, where the 20th-century regimes of Stalin and Hitler interacted to cause significant suffering and bloodshed.
What part of speech is bloodlands?
Bloodlands is a noun.

Words near bloodlands in the dictionary

  1. blooding
  2. blooding in
  3. blooding out
  4. bloodings
  5. bloodish
  6. bloodlands
  7. bloodleaf
  8. bloodleafs
  9. bloodleaves
  10. bloodless
  11. bloodless surgeries

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