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Definition of Transylvania in English: Transylvaniaproper nounˌtransɪlˈveɪnɪəˌtræn(t)səlˈveɪnjə A large tableland region of NW Romania, separated from the rest of the country by the Carpathian Mountains and the Transylvanian Alps. Part of Hungary until it became a principality of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, it was returned to Hungary at the end of the 17th century and was incorporated into Romania in 1918. 特兰西瓦尼亚（罗马尼亚西北部大型台地，喀尔巴阡山脉和特兰西瓦尼亚阿尔卑斯山脉将其与该国其他地区隔开；该地原为匈牙利领土，16世纪成为奥斯曼帝国的一个公国，17世纪末归还匈牙利，1918年并入罗马尼亚）
OriginBased on Latin trans 'across, beyond' + silva 'forest'. RhymesAlbania, balletomania, bibliomania, crania, dipsomania, egomania, erotomania, kleptomania, Lithuania, Lusitania, mania, Mauritania, megalomania, miscellanea, monomania, nymphomania, Pennsylvania, Pomerania, pyromania, Rainier, Romania, Ruritania, Tasmania, Urania Definition of Transylvania in US English: Transylvaniaproper nounˌtræn(t)səlˈveɪnjəˌtran(t)səlˈvānyə 1A large tableland region of northwestern Romania, separated from the rest of the country by the Carpathian Mountains and the Transylvanian Alps. Part of Hungary until it became a principality of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century, it was returned to Hungary at the end of the 17th century and was incorporated into Romania in 1918. 特兰西瓦尼亚（罗马尼亚西北部大型台地，喀尔巴阡山脉和特兰西瓦尼亚阿尔卑斯山脉将其与该国其他地区隔开；该地原为匈牙利领土，16世纪成为奥斯曼帝国的一个公国，17世纪末归还匈牙利，1918年并入罗马尼亚） 2(in US history) an unrecognized fourteenth colony that was proposed in the 1770s in what is now central Kentucky and neighboring Tennessee.
OriginBased on Latin trans ‘across, beyond’ + silva ‘forest’. |