Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An ancient region of the Balkan Peninsula on the Adriatic coast. Occupied in prehistoric times by an Indo-European-speaking people, the area became the Roman province of Illyricum after the final conquest of the Illyrians in 35–33 BC. The name was revived by Napoleon for the provinces of Illyria (1809–1815) and retained for the kingdom of Illyria, a division of Austria from 1816 to 1849.
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- proper noun A region in the western part of today's
Balkan Peninsula that was inhabited by theIllyrians , ancientIndo-European people.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an uncertain region on the east shore of the Adriatic where an ancient Indo-European people once lived
Etymologies
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Examples
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Did she have a full Brazilian before she set sail on her cruise and learn since her shipwreck that bare is not the fashion here in Illyria?
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Did she have a full Brazilian before she set sail on her cruise and learn since her shipwreck that bare is not the fashion here in Illyria?
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From the time of Augustus the name Illyria was applied not only to the present Province of Illyria, since 11 B.C. a province of the empire and called Dalmatia (embracing the Dalmatia of to-day, Montenegro, the western part of Croatia, and the northern part of Albania), but was made to include the districts of Rhaetia,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913
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Ague-cheek, & quotI am as tall a man as any in Illyria, he may laugh to scorn the most gigantic talents.
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799
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& quotI am as tall a man as any in Illyria, he may laugh to scorn the most gigantic talents.
Letter to the Women of England, on the Injustice of Mental Subordination 1799
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Olivia to her maid Maria, he defends his friends suit by claiming that "Hes as tall a man as anys in Illyria."
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If I had been a German, I could not have received [N] the mission with which I am charged -- because the messenger in the mission with which I am charged, must come, according to prophecies, from the Slavonian nation, from the country called Illyria or Illyricum, from the town, named in my mother tongue Kamnik, in Greek and Latin Lithopolis, in
Secret Enemies of True Republicanism Andrew B. Smolnikar
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But the most deadly blow was the constitution of a subsidiary government, to be known as Illyria, by the surrender directly to
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) William Milligan Sloane 1889
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Lachlan Murdoch owns an Australian investment firm called Illyria.
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Lachlan Murdoch owns an Australian investment firm called Illyria.
Reuters: Top News 2011
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