BOLIVIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Bolivia mean?
• BOLIVIA (noun)
The noun BOLIVIA has 2 senses:
1. a landlocked republic in central South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain
2. a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded
Familiarity information: BOLIVIA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
• BOLIVIA (noun)
Meaning:
A landlocked republic in central South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Bolivia; Republic of Bolivia
Instance hypernyms:
South American country; South American nation (countries occupying the South American continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Bolivia"):
Sajama (a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high))
Illimani (a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high))
Illampu (a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,870 feet high))
Andes (a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast)
Ancohuma (a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,960 feet high))
Sucre (the legal capital and seat of the judiciary in Bolivia)
Santa Cruz (a city in central Bolivia)
La Paz (city in western Bolivia and the administrative seat of Bolivia's government; largest city in Bolivia)
Meronyms (members of "Bolivia"):
Bolivian (a native or inhabitant of Bolivia)
Domain member region:
EGTK; Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (a terrorist group that is the remnants of the original Bolivian insurgents trained by Che Guevara; attacks small unprotected targets such as power pylons or oil pipelines or government buildings)
CNPZ; ELN; National Liberation Army; Nestor Paz Zamora Commission (a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s)
Holonyms ("Bolivia" is a part of...):
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Holonyms ("Bolivia" is a member of...):
OAS; Organization of American States (an association of countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)
Meaning:
A form of canasta in which sequences can be melded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("bolivia" is a kind of...):
basket rummy; canasta; meld (a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank)
