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RAND
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese
Synonyms:
Rand; Reef; Witwatersrand
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
part; region (the extended spatial location of something)
Holonyms ("Rand" is a part of...):
Transvaal (a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982)
Synonyms:
Ayn Rand; Rand
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))
Sense 3
Meaning:
The basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("rand" is a kind of...):
South African monetary unit (monetary unit in South Africa)
Meronyms (parts of "rand"):
cent (a fractional monetary unit of several countries)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (first person singular and plural, second person singular and plural, third person plural) of the verb rand
