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BELORUSSIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet
Synonyms:
Belarus; Belorussia; Byelarus; Byelorussia; Republic of Belarus; White Russia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
European country; European nation (any one of the countries occupying the European continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Belorussia"):
capital of Belarus; Minsk (the capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States)
Gomel; Homel; Homyel (industrial city of Belarus to the southeast of Minsk)
Pinsk (a city of southwestern Belarus)
Lubavitch (a town in Belarus that was the center of the Chabad movement for a brief period during the 19th century)
Dnieper; Dnieper River (a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea)
Meronyms (members of "Belorussia"):
Belorussian; Byelorussian; White Russian (a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia)
Holonyms ("Belorussia" is a part of...):
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)
Holonyms ("Belorussia" is a member of...):
CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)
