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KINGDOM OF LESOTHO
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966
Synonyms:
Basutoland; Kingdom of Lesotho; Lesotho
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Kingdom of Lesotho"):
capital of Lesotho; Maseru (the capital of Lesotho; located in northwestern Lesotho)
Meronyms (members of "Kingdom of Lesotho"):
Basotho (a member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho)
Sotho (a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages)
Holonyms ("Kingdom of Lesotho" 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)
