AFGHANISTAN
Dictionary entry overview: What does Afghanistan mean?
• AFGHANISTAN (noun)
The noun AFGHANISTAN has 1 sense:
1. a mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south
Familiarity information: AFGHANISTAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• AFGHANISTAN (noun)
Meaning:
A mountainous landlocked country in central Asia; bordered by Iran to the west and Russia to the north and Pakistan to the east and south
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Afghanistan; Islamic State of Afghanistan
Context example:
Soviet troops invaded Afghanistan in 1979
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Afghanistan"):
Kandahar; Qandahar (a city in southern Afghanistan; an important trading center)
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)
Herat (a city in northwestern Afghanistan on the site of several ancient cities)
Jalalabad (a town in eastern Afghanistan (east of Kabul))
capital of Afghanistan; Kabul (the capital and largest city of Afghanistan; located in eastern Afghanistan)
Khyber Pass (a mountain pass of great strategic and commercial value in the Hindu Kush on the border between northern Pakistan and western Afghanistan; a route by which invaders entered India)
Mazar-i-Sharif (a city in northern Afghanistan)
Hindu Kush; Hindu Kush Mountains (a mountain range extending west of the Himalayas)
Meronyms (members of "Afghanistan"):
Afghan; Afghanistani (a native or inhabitant of Afghanistan)
Domain member region:
Loya Jirga (a grand council or grand assembly used to resolve political conflicts or other national problems)
al-Qa'ida; al-Qaeda; al-Qaida; Base; Qaeda (a terrorist network intensely opposed to the United States that dispenses money and logistical support and training to a wide variety of radical Islamic terrorist groups; has cells in more than 50 countries)
Holonyms ("Afghanistan" 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)
