Definition of Dubrovnik

1. Noun. A port city in southwestern Croatia on the Adriatic; a popular tourist center.

Exact synonyms: Ragusa
Generic synonyms: City, Metropolis, Urban Center, Port
Group relationships: Croatia, Hrvatska, Republic Of Croatia

Definition of Dubrovnik

1. Proper noun. A city and port in southern Croatia on the Adriatic Sea. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Dubrovnik

Dubin
Dubin-Johnson syndrome
Dublin
Dubliner
Dubliners
Dublinese
Dubonnet
Duboscq's colourimeter
Dubowitz
Dubowitz score
Dubreuil-Chambardel
Dubreuilh
Dubrovnik (current term)
Dubuque
Dubya
Dubyuh
Duc d'Elchingen
Duc de Richelieu
Duc de Sully
Duchamp
Duchampian
Duchenne
Duchenne's disease
Duchenne's muscular dystrophy
Duchenne's sign
Duchenne's syndrome
Duchenne-Aran disease

Literary usage of Dubrovnik

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

1. Cruising the Mediterranean: A Guide to the Ports of Call by Larry H. Ludmer (2006)
"While the more ambitious traveler might decide on taking the half-hour walk, a short bus ride will deliver you to the city center and Old Dubrovnik. ..."

2. The Papacy and the Levant, 1204-1571 by Kenneth M. Setton (1978)
"... grada Dubrov- nika [The Fortifications of Dubrovnik], Zagreb, 1955, and see in general the rambling but interesting lectures of N. ..."

3. Handbook to the Mediterranean: Its Cities, Coasts and Islands. For the Use by Robert Lambert Playfair, John Murray (Firm) (1892)
"The site was at that time an oak forest (Slav. Du- brava, hence Dubrovnik), and as late as the 13th cent, part of Monte Sergio was cleared of wood, ..."

4. The Drama in Former Yugoslavia: The Beginning of the End or the End of the by Anton Zabkar (1998)
"The Uzice and Podgorica corps had, in cooperation with the Navy's coastal sector of Boka Kotorska and the fleet, attacked in the direction of Dubrovnik, ..."

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