| Library / English Dictionary |
TURKMENISTAN
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991
Synonyms:
Turkmen; Turkmenia; Turkmenistan; Turkomen
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Turkmenistan"):
Ashkhabad; capital of Turkmenistan (the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan)
Kara Kum; Qara Qum; Turkestan Desert (a desert in Turkmenistan to the south of the Aral Sea)
Holonyms ("Turkmenistan" is a part of...):
Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)
Holonyms ("Turkmenistan" is a member of...):
CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)
