COLOMBIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Colombia mean?
• COLOMBIA (noun)
The noun COLOMBIA has 1 sense:
1. a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language
Familiarity information: COLOMBIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• COLOMBIA (noun)
Meaning:
A republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Colombia; Republic of Colombia
Instance hypernyms:
South American country; South American nation (countries occupying the South American continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Colombia"):
Medellin (city in western Colombia; important coffee center)
Soledad (a city in northern Colombia; a suburb of Barranquilla)
Cartagena (a port city in northwestern Colombia on the Caribbean)
Purace (an inactive volcano in the Andes in southern Colombia; last erupted in 1950)
Cali (city in southwestern Colombia in a rich agricultural area)
Bogota; capital of Colombia (capital and largest city of Colombia; located in central Colombia on a high fertile plain)
Barranquilla (a port city of northern Colombia near the Caribbean on the Magdalena River)
Andes (a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast)
Arauca (a river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela)
Magdalena; Magdalena River (a river that rises in the Andes mountains in southwestern Colombia and flows generally northward to empty into the Caribbean Sea at Barranquilla)
Orinoco; Orinoco River (a South American river 1,500 miles long; flows into the South Atlantic)
Galeras; Pasto (an active volcano in southeastern Colombia in the Andes)
Meronyms (members of "Colombia"):
Colombian (a native or inhabitant of Colombia)
Domain member region:
Cali cartel (a drug cartel that seized control of cocaine production in Colombia in 1993; adopted techniques used by terrorist organizations (small cells and sophisticated communications equipment and close ties with politicians etc.))
Medellin cartel (a drug cartel in Colombia; controlled the production of cocaine from the 1970s until 1993 when the leader was killed)
AUC; Autodefensas Unidas de Colombia; United Self-Defense Force of Colombia; United Self-Defense Group of Colombia (a terrorist organization in Colombia formed in 1997 as an umbrella for local and regional paramilitary groups; is financed by earnings from narcotics and serves to protect the economic interests of its members)
FARC; Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarios de Colombia; Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (a powerful and wealthy terrorist organization formed in 1957 as the guerilla arm of the Colombian communist party; opposed to the United States; has strong ties to drug dealers)
ELN; National Liberation Army (a Marxist terrorist group formed in 1963 by Colombian intellectuals who were inspired by the Cuban Revolution; responsible for a campaign of mass kidnappings and resistance to the government's efforts to stop the drug trade)
Holonyms ("Colombia" is a part of...):
South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)
Holonyms ("Colombia" 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)
