Definition of Thuringia

1. Noun. A historical region of southern Germany.


Definition of Thuringia

1. Proper noun. One of the component states of Germany according to the current administrative division of the nation. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Thuringia

Thumbelina
Thunbergia
Thunbergia alata
Thunder Bay
Thunderbird
Thunderbirds
Thunderer
Thunnus
Thunnus alalunga
Thunnus albacares
Thunnus thynnus
Thur
Thurber
Thurgau
Thurgovia
Thuringia
Thuringian
Thuringians
Thurs
Thursday
Thursdays
Thurston
Thurston's geometrization conjecture
Thy
Thy 1 glycoprotein
Thygeson's disease
Thylacinus
Thylacinus cynocephalus
Thylogale
Thymelaeaceae

Literary usage of Thuringia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Report of the Annual Meeting (1908)
"The headquarters are in the North of Germany, between the mountains of thuringia and the Hartz, this being the northern limit. It spreads to Western Germany ..."

2. History of the Christian Church by Wilhelm Ernst Möller (1893)
"Missionary activity is indeed not to be observed during the century of the alliance of thuringia with Austrasia, but the Prankish Christian elements made ..."

3. Chambers's encyclopædia by Chambers W. and R., ltd (1874)
"... the prosperity of the country greatly raised, and Meissen, thuringia, East S., ... whose brother William had obtained thuringia, a civil war broke out, ..."

4. The Earth and Its Inhabitants by Élisée Reclus (1882)
"As a barrier of separation between north and south, thuringia proved all the more efficacious, as the mountains of Bohemia advance there like a bastion far ..."

5. Economic and Cultural Transition Towards a Learning City: The Case of Jena by Ceri, Rainer Treptow (1999)
"... significant effort to establish a powerful industrial sector, and thuringia and Saxonia became the most important industrial regions in the former GDR, ..."

6. A Manual of Elementary Geology: Or, The Ancient Changes of the Earth and Its by Sir Charles Lyell (1853)
"... with what he conceives to be the corresponding formations in thuringia.* North of England. thuringia, 1. Crystalline or concretionary, and 1. ..."

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