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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From Latin Dacia, from Dacian.

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Examples

  • Licinius passed through that city, and breaking down the bridge on the Save, hastened to collect a new army in Dacia and Thrace.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • Constans, who then resided in Dacia, were directed with more prudence and ability.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • 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.

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • For the Western market, however, the Dacia was a nightmare.

    What I Learned as a Car Czar Ion Mihai Pacepa 2009

  • Entire team being transported in two old Romanian built cars called Dacia, not so powerful as gas powered Weed Wacker.

    The Times They Are A-Rockin': The Future of Rock Racing BikeSnobNYC 2008

  • 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.

    Time Patrolman Anderson, Poul, 1926-2001 1983

  • 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.

    The Origin and Deeds of the Goths Jordanes

  • For the Western market, however, the Dacia was a nightmare.

    Baltiblogs 2009

  • For the Western market, however, the Dacia was a nightmare.

    Baltiblogs 2009

  • General Motors Corp. 's struggling German unit Opel, and foreign brands such as Dacia and Fiat.

    Germany's 'Scrap' Bonus Fuels Car Sales 2009

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