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BRITISH EAST AFRICA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The former British territories of eastern Africa, including Kenya, Tanganyika, Uganda, and Zanzibar
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("British East Africa" is a kind of...):
district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)
Holonyms ("British East Africa" is a member of...):
British Empire (a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand)