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

Attention is focused this weekend on central and eastern parts of the country, especially North Moravia, where 50 people lost their lives in 1997.

From BBC

Confiscated by the Nazis as they purged synagogues and communities throughout Bohemia and Moravia, the Torah scrolls were shipped to the Jewish Museum in Prague.

From New York Times

That is the way Moravia writes — except that you, reader, have been granted omniscient privileges to sit on his shoulder and copy all the answers!

From New York Times

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

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