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NORTHWEST TERRITORIES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A large territory in northwestern Canada; part is now Nunavut
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Meronyms (parts of "Northwest Territories"):
Yellowknife (a town in the Northwest Territories in northern Canada on the Great Slave Lake)
Great Slave Lake (a lake in the Northwest Territories in northwestern Canada; drained by the Mackenzie River)
Holonyms ("Northwest Territories" is a part of...):
Canada (a nation in northern North America; the French were the first Europeans to settle in mainland Canada)
