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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 "Lesotho"):
capital of Lesotho; Maseru (the capital of Lesotho; located in northwestern Lesotho)
Meronyms (members 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 ("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)
