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montenegro

UK/mɒntɪˈniːɹəʊ/US/ˌmɑntəˈniɡɹoʊ/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Montenegro is the tiny Adriatic country whose name means black mountain. A week in Montenegro.

The name is Venetian, and the mountain in question is thought to be Mount Lovcen. Montenegro uses the euro without ever having joined the currency formally.

B1mbo, Froztbyte, Great Brightstar · Public domain

Definitions of montenegro

  1. 1nounmontenegroThe tiny Adriatic country whose name means black mountain.B2

    “Montenegro has a fjord-like bay at Kotor.”

montenegro is a country.

Where it comes from

Montenegro vec Montenegro literally “black mountain”, a calque of Cȓnā Gòra, referring to Mount Lovćen.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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