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TADZHIKISTAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet
Synonyms:
Republic of Tajikistan; Tadjik; Tadzhik; Tadzhikistan; Tajik; Tajikistan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Tadzhikistan"):
capital of Tajikistan; Dusanbe; Dushanbe; Dyushambe; Stalinabad (the capital of Tajikistan; formerly Stalinabad 1926-1991)
Communism Peak; Mount Communism; Mount Garmo; Stalin Peak (the highest mountain peak in the Pamir Mountains; near the Chinese border in northeastern Tajikistan (24,590 feet high))
Pamir Mountains; the Pamirs (a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China)
Meronyms (members of "Tadzhikistan"):
Tadzhik; Tajik (a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China)
Holonyms ("Tadzhikistan" 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 ("Tadzhikistan" 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)
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