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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Transvaal"):
Rand; Reef; Witwatersrand (a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese)
Holonyms ("Transvaal" is a part of...):
Republic of South Africa; South Africa (a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers))
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