On this page you'll find 8 example sentences with Syldavia. Discover the meaning, how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Syldavia meaning
- An imaginary country located in the Balkans and enemy of Borduria, in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin.
- A generic name of a fictional country, generally contrasted with a rival counterpart Borduria.
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Using Syldavia
- The main meaning on this page is: An imaginary country located in the Balkans and enemy of Borduria, in the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin. | A generic name of a fictional country, generally contrasted with a rival counterpart Borduria.
- Possible Dutch translations are: syldavië.
- In the example corpus, syldavia often appears in combinations such as: syldavia tintin.
Context around Syldavia
- Average sentence length in these examples: 24.1 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 5 middle, 2 end
- Sentence types: 8 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Syldavia
- In this selection, "syldavia" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 24.1 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, fictional, mention, tintin, may and must stand out and add context to how "syldavia" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include arrived in syldavia tintin pursues and inspirations for syldavia. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "syldavia" sits close to words such as aaaaa, aaba and aafc, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with syldavia
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
There are various inspirations for Syldavia. (6 words)
Hergé's assistant Har Brok writes that Syldavia "may have been modelled after a country like Romania or Yugoslavia". (19 words)
Suspecting that these events are linked to Syldavia, Tintin decides to accompany Professor Alembick on his forthcoming visit to the country. (21 words)
Instead, a paper by Richardson entitled "Generalized Foreign Politics: A Story in Group Psychology" was published in The British Journal of Psychology Monograph Supplements in 1939, but did not mention Syldavia or Borduria. (33 words)
With the aid of Thomson and Thompson, who have recently arrived in Syldavia, Tintin pursues the thieves, and is able to prevent the sceptre being carried over the border into neighbouring Borduria. (32 words)
The King then said the motto and decreed that the ruler of Syldavia must have hold on the sceptre, otherwise he would lose his authority, as it had saved his life. (31 words)
Example sentences (8)
Both were set after World War II, at a time when the various Balkan monarchies providing models for the fictional Syldavia had been overthrown and their rulers exiled.
Hergé's assistant Har Brok writes that Syldavia "may have been modelled after a country like Romania or Yugoslavia".
Instead, a paper by Richardson entitled "Generalized Foreign Politics: A Story in Group Psychology" was published in The British Journal of Psychology Monograph Supplements in 1939, but did not mention Syldavia or Borduria.
Suspecting that these events are linked to Syldavia, Tintin decides to accompany Professor Alembick on his forthcoming visit to the country.
Syldavia's depiction was influenced by the costumes and cultures of the Balkan region, as well as those of neighbouring Romania and Albania.
The King then said the motto and decreed that the ruler of Syldavia must have hold on the sceptre, otherwise he would lose his authority, as it had saved his life.
There are various inspirations for Syldavia.
With the aid of Thomson and Thompson, who have recently arrived in Syldavia, Tintin pursues the thieves, and is able to prevent the sceptre being carried over the border into neighbouring Borduria.
Common combinations with syldavia
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: