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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
South American country; South American nation (any one of the countries occupying the South American continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Peru"):
Yerupaja (a mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,709 feet high))
Huascaran (a mountain in the Andes in Peru (22,205 feet high))
Arequipa (a city in southern Peru founded in 1540 on the site of an ancient Inca city)
capital of Peru; Lima (capital and largest city and economic center of Peru; located in western Peru; was capital of the Spanish empire in the New World until the 19th century)
Machu Picchu (Inca fortress city in the Andes in Peru discovered in 1911; it may have been built in the 15th century)
El Misti (the world's 2nd largest active volcano; located in the Andes in southern Peru)
Huainaputina (an inactive volcano in the Andes in southern Peru; last erupted in 1783)
Amazon; Amazon River (a major South American river; arises in the Andes and flows eastward into the South Atlantic; the world's 2nd longest river (4000 miles))
Andes (a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast)
Coropuna (a mountain peak in the Andes in Peru (21,083 feet high))
Meronyms (members of "Peru"):
Peruvian (a native or inhabitant of Peru)
Domain member region:
Inca; Inka (the small group of Quechua living in the Cuzco Valley in Peru who established hegemony over their neighbors in order to create an empire that lasted from about 1100 until the Spanish conquest in the early 1530s)
Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Anaru; MRTA; Tupac Amaru Revolutionary Movement (a Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization in Peru; was formed in 1983 to overthrow the Peruvian government and replace it with a Marxist regime; has connections with the ELN in Bolivia)
Sendero Luminoso; Shining Path; SL (a terrorist group formed in Peru in the late 1960s as a splinter group from the communist party of Peru; is among the most ruthless guerilla organizations in the world; seeks to destroy Peruvian institutions and replace them with a Maoist peasant regime; is involved in the cocaine trade)
Holonyms ("Peru" is a part of...):
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Holonyms ("Peru" is a member of...):
OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)
Derivation:
Peruvian (of or relating to or characteristic of Peru or its people)
Context examples:
Janet Voight, a zoologist at the Field Museum in Chicago, told: "To my knowledge, there had been no reports of octopuses at this or comparable depths between Southern California and Peru. Never would I have anticipated such a dense cluster of these animals in the deep sea.
(Giant group of octopus moms discovered in the deep sea, National Science Foundation)
If this rule were always observed; if no man allowed any pursuit whatsoever to interfere with the tranquillity of his domestic affections, Greece had not been enslaved, Cæsar would have spared his country, America would have been discovered more gradually, and the empires of Mexico and Peru had not been destroyed.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Our ashes, at a future period, will probably be found commingled in the cemetery attached to a venerable pile, for which the spot to which I refer has acquired a reputation, shall I say from China to Peru?
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Unfortunately, increasing nutrient concentrations and the consequences of eutrophication have been recorded for most of the ancient lakes, including Victoria (on the border of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), Baikal (Russia), Valencia (Venezuela), Titicaca (Peru) and Ohrid (Macedonia).
(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)
He spoke little of his own exploits in Brazil and Peru, but it was a revelation to me to find the excitement which was caused by his presence among the riverine natives, who looked upon him as their champion and protector.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He would tell the history of the mighty river so rapidly explored (for some of the first conquerors of Peru actually crossed the entire continent upon its waters), and yet so unknown in regard to all that lay behind its ever-changing banks.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
