Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient region and Roman province corresponding roughly to modern Romania. Inhabited before the Christian era by a people of Thracian stock with an advanced material culture, the region was abandoned to the Goths after AD 270.
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- proper noun An ancient kingdom located in the area now known as
Romania . The Dacian kingdom was conquered by the Romans and later named Romania after them. - proper noun
Denmark (Dacia is an obsolete Medieval Latin name for Denmark). - proper noun An automobile produced in Romania, the Dacia.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Licinius passed through that city, and breaking down the bridge on the Save, hastened to collect a new army in Dacia and Thrace.
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Constans, who then resided in Dacia, were directed with more prudence and ability.
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9 The great Constantine was most probably born at Naissus, in Dacia; 10 and it is not surprising that, in a family and province distinguished only by the profession of arms, the youth should discover very little inclination to improve his mind by the acquisition of knowledge.
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For the Western market, however, the Dacia was a nightmare.
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Entire team being transported in two old Romanian built cars called Dacia, not so powerful as gas powered Weed Wacker.
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Wanting to encounter Ulfilas informally, I'd laid out the route of my party to intercept that of his as we both traveled through what the Romans had known as Dacia before they withdrew from it, and I in my day knew as Rumania.
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This Gothia, which our ancestors called Dacia and now, as I have said, is called Gepidia, was then bounded on the east by the Roxolani, on the west by the Iazyges, on the north by the Sarmatians and Basternae and on the south by the river Danube.
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For the Western market, however, the Dacia was a nightmare.
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For the Western market, however, the Dacia was a nightmare.
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General Motors Corp. 's struggling German unit Opel, and foreign brands such as Dacia and Fiat.
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