bosnia-herzegovina

Questions about bosnia-herzegovina

What does bosnia-herzegovina mean?

bosnia-herzegovina means "a mountainous republic of south-central Europe; formerly part of the Ottoman Empire and then a part of Yugoslavia; voted for independence in 1992 but the mostly Serbian army of Yugoslavia refused to accept the vote and began ethnic cleansing in order to rid Bosnia of its Croats and Muslims".

How many syllables are in bosnia-herzegovina?

bosnia-herzegovina has 8 syllables and divides as bo-sni-a--her-ze-go-vi-na under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for bosnia-herzegovina?

Close synonyms include Bosnia and Herzegovina, Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosna i Hercegovina, Bosnia. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bosnia-herzegovina a common word?

bosnia-herzegovina is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.