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Czechoslovakia

proper nounattested in dialogue

  • United States//ˌt͡ʃɛk.ə.sləˈvɑ.ki.ə//
  • United States//ˌt͡ʃɛk.ə.sləˈvæk.i.ə//

A former country in Central Europe, now the Czech Republic and Slovakia; Carpathian Ruthenia, at the eastern end, became a part of Ukraine.

proper noun

  1. 1

    historicalA former country in Central Europe, now the Czech Republic and Slovakia; Carpathian Ruthenia, at the eastern end, became a part of Ukraine.

    De Maistre's words fall easily and appropriately into place in Pavel Kohout's new novel about a state and a time not unlike that of his native Czechoslovakia just after the reimposition of Communist law and order in the late 1960's.

Etymology

From Czecho- + Slovakia.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).