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KAZAKSTAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991
Synonyms:
Kazak; Kazakh; Kazakhstan; Kazakstan; Republic of Kazakhstan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Kazakstan"):
Alma-Ata; Almaty (the largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998)
Meronyms (members of "Kazakstan"):
Kazakhstani (a native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan)
Holonyms ("Kazakstan" is a part of...):
Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)
Holonyms ("Kazakstan" 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)
