Fiume

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proper noun

Synonym of Rijeka, a city in Croatia.

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RijekaFree State of Fiume
OriginItalian Fiume ← Latin Flūmen →
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Meanings

proper noun
  1. historicalpotentially offensiveSynonym of Rijeka, a city in Croatia.

    Christmas 1920 was not what locals had come to anticipate in Fiume, the industrial port town in the northeast corner of the Adriatic Sea.

    2020, Dominique Kirchner Reill, The Fiume Crisis: Life in the Wake of the Habsburg Empire, Cambridge: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 1

    Synonyms: Rijeka

  2. historicalA former polity in Europe, between 1920–1924.

    Synonyms: Free State of Fiume

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounSynonym of Rijeka, a city in Croatia.

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Rijeka

proper nounA former polity in Europe, between 1920–1924.

Similar
Free State of Fiume
Also see
free state of fiumerijeka

Origin

  1. LatinFlūmen
  2. ItalianFiume
  3. EnglishFiume

Borrowed from Italian Fiume, from Latin Flūmen, from flūmen (“river”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

Fumie
Cite this entry
APA

Fiume. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fiume

MLA

“Fiume.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fiume. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Fiume,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Fiume.

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