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BOTSWANA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s

Synonyms:

Botswana; Republic of Botswana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Botswana"):

capital of Botswana; Gaborone (capital and largest city of Botswana in the extreme southeast)

Kalahari; Kalahari Desert (a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana)

Meronyms (members of "Botswana"):

Herero (a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola)

Sotho (a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages)

Batswana; Bechuana; Tswana (a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa)

Holonyms ("Botswana" is a part of...):

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

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