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Romania

/ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə//ɹoʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/

Romania proper noun: a country in Southeastern Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest. Also the obsolete form of Romagna.

romania: a country in Southeastern Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest
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Proper noun (1)

Romania

  1. A country in Southeastern Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest.
    • There is strong resistance in much of Europe to fracking, the practice of forcing liquid and sand into wells to release trapped oil and gas. France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European...2014 November 9, Stanley Reed, “Britain Plans for Future of Shale Oil and Gas Industry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 18 Jan 2022

Proper noun (2)

Romania

  1. (historical, literary) The Latin- or Romance-speaking areas of Europe, collectively.
  2. (historical) Synonym of Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories.
    • There is a significant coincidence of dates between several events: the splitting of the Paulician community in Rhomania in consequence of Séryios’s innovations; the breach between Séryios’s partisans and the East Roman Imperial Government, […]1973, Arnold Joseph Toynbee, Constantine Porphyrogenitus and his world, page 682
    • The Doge of Venice was honored with his full title of dominator of one-quarter and one-eighth of the whole Empire of Romania; and he was promised repossession of all the rights and properties that his people had held in Constantinople in the years of the Latin occupation.1988, Donald M. Nicol, Byzantium and Venice: A Study in Diplomatic and Cultural Relations, page 208
    Synonyms:
    Byzantine Empire, also used for its former territories

Also used as

Romania is also the obsolete form of Romagna.

Romania meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

Romania in Hindi

South-Eastern European country
रोमानिया romāniyā

Romania in Tamil

South-Eastern European country
உருமேனியா urumēṉiyā

Romania in Marathi

South-Eastern European country
रोमेनिया romeniyā

Romania in Urdu

South-Eastern European country
رومانِیَہ romāniya
More languagesFewer languages
Romania in Bengali
রোমানিয়া rōmaniẏa
Romania in Telugu
రొమేనియా romēniyā
Romania in Malayalam
റൊമാനിയ ṟomāniya
Romania in Kannada
ರೊಮಾನಿಯ romāniya
Romania in Punjabi
ਰੋਮਾਨੀਆ romānīā
Romania in Gujarati
રોમાનિયા romāniyā
Romania in Odia
ରୋମାନିଆ romāniā
Romania in Sinhala
රුමේනියාව rumēniyāwa
Romania in Assamese
ৰোমানিয়া rümania
Romania in Nepali
रोमानिया romāniyā
Romania in Pashto
رومانیا rōmāniyā
Romania in Tagalog
Rumanya
Romania in Arabic
رُومَانِيَا rūmāniyā
Romania in Malay
Romania
Romania in Indonesian
Rumania
Romania in Thai
โรมาเนีย roo-maa-niia
Romania in Vietnamese
Ru-ma-ni, Lỗ Má Ni, România
Romania in Myanmar
ရူမေးနီးယား rume:ni:ya:
Dhivehi
ރުމޭނިއާ rumēniā

Examples of Romania in a sentence

  • France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European countries like Romania and Poland.2014 November 9, Stanley Reed, “Britain Plans for Future of Shale Oil and Gas Industry”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the...
  • The Fourth Crusade ended in 1204 with the Western or Latin conquest of Constantinople and signalled the beginning of a new era in the history of the Byzantine lands or Romania.1989, David Jacoby, “From Byzantium to Latin Romania: Continuity and Change”, in Latins and Greeks in the Eastern Mediterranean After 1204...
  • The dramatic fall of Constantinople in 1204 and the Latin conquest of the Empire’s provinces in the following decade resulted in the dismemberment of Romania.2001, David Jacoby, “Changing Economic Patterns in Latin Romania: The Impact of the West”, in The Crusades from the Perspective of...

Synonyms of Romania

Forms of Romania

alternative formRhomania
alternative form (rare)România
alternative form (archaic)Rumania
alternative form (archaic)Roumania

Origin of Romania

From Romanian România, from român (“Romanian”) (in turn from Latin Rōmānus (“Roman”)) + -ia.

From Latin Rōmānia, from Byzantine Greek Ῥωμανία (Rhōmanía), itself from Latin Rōmānus. By surface analysis, Roman + -ia. Doublet of Romagna.

Words formed from Romania

Phrases with Romania

Words that rhyme with Romania

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Questions about Romania

What does Romania mean?
Romania means a country in Southeastern Europe. Capital and largest city: Bucharest.
What is Romania in Hindi?
Romania in Hindi is रोमानिया (romāniyā). See Romania meaning in Hindi.
How do you use Romania in a sentence?
France has a ban on fracking, Germany has imposed a moratorium, and opposition has cropped up and sometimes delayed shale exploration in Eastern European countries like Romania and Poland.
What part of speech is Romania?
Romania is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce Romania?
Romania is pronounced /ɹəʊˈmeɪ.ni.ə/ (UK).

Words near Romania in the dictionary

  1. romanette
  2. romanettes
  3. Romanhood
  4. Romani
  5. Romani studies
  6. Romania
  7. Romanian
  8. Romanian Carpathian Shepherd
  9. Romanian Carpathian Shepherds
  10. Romanian deadlift
  11. Romanian deadlifts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Romania (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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