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LIBYA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum
Synonyms:
Libya; Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Libya"):
capital of Libya; Tarabulus Al-Gharb; Tripoli (the capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC)
Benghazi (port in northern Libya on the Gulf of Sidra; formerly a joint capital of Libya with Tripoli)
Libyan Desert (the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan)
Meronyms (members of "Libya"):
Libyan (a native or inhabitant of Libya)
Domain member region:
Abu Nidal Organization; ANO; Arab Revolutionary Brigades; Black September; Fatah-RC; Fatah Revolutionary Council; Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims (a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries)
Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya; FIG; Libyan Fighting Group; Libyan Islamic Fighting Group; Libyan Islamic Group (a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi)
Holonyms ("Libya" is a part of...):
Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
Holonyms ("Libya" is a member of...):
Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)
OPEC; Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum)
Derivation:
Libyan (of or relating to Libya or its people)
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