LOW COUNTRIES

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lowland region of western Europe on the North Sea: Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Low Countries" is a part of...):

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

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