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LOW COUNTRIES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The lowland region of western Europe on the North Sea: Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Holonyms ("Low Countries" is a part of...):
Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)