bosnia-herzegovinian
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
37
Scrabble Score
19
Letters
5
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
noun
Example Sentences
- "Some leaders in Southern California’s Croatian and Bosnia-Herzegovinian communities express doubt that he is the person for the job. Whatever his motives, they say, Panic will ultimately be used by Milosevic, whom they accuse of committing genocide during the battles raging in Bosnia-Herzegovina and earlier attacks in Croatia."
- "What Sarajevans want above all else is to see the aggressor routed. “A necessary evil” is Bosnia-Herzegovinian Defense Minister Jerko Doko’s blunt term for the United Nations’ hard-won airlift. “I wish the airport hadn’t been opened in this way, because it has actually slowed down the liberation of Sarajevo.”"
- "After the Bosnia-Herzegovinian side's 1-0 first-leg victory, hundreds of drivers performed endless U-turns while sounding their horns as 5,000 supporters gathered to welcome the team home."
- "The Congress of Berlin granted Austria-Hungary the right to occupy and subdue the rebellious province – nominally still under Ottoman suzerainty – and Vienna swiftly sent troops to garrison the Bosnia-Herzegovinian towns."
- "Zanat’s origins stretch back to the late 19th-century – its founders’ great-grandfather had a workshop in the Bosnia-Herzegovinian town of Konjic"
- "[Agnes] Nixon, who gave the longest and most self-congratulatory acceptance speech at this year's Daytime Emmy Awards, has thrown familiar soap opera elements into this production, which also owes something to gothic novels about women who go into major swoons over swarthy fellows. This is supposed to be a story about the Irish who emigrated to America but, not very deep down, it's really just another excuse for brawling and whoopie. They might as well be Newfoundlanders or Bosnia-Herzegovinians."
Etymology
From Bosnia-Herzegovina + -ian.