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CASHMERE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("cashmere" is a kind of...):
cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
An area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India
Synonyms:
Cashmere; Jammu and Kashmir; Kashmir
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Cashmere"):
Line of Control (a 450-mile line that is supposed to indicate the boundary between the part of Kashmir controlled by India and the part controlled by Pakistan)
Karakoram; Karakoram Range; Karakorum Range; Mustagh; Mustagh Range (a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak)
Nanga Parbat (a mountain in the Himalayas in Kashmir (26,660 feet high))
Domain member region:
Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami; Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami; HUJI (an extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan)
Holonyms ("Cashmere" is a part of...):
Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)
Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)
Sense 3
Meaning:
The wool of the Kashmir goat
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cashmere" is a kind of...):
wool (fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving)
