SIBERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Siberia mean? 

• SIBERIA (noun)
  The noun SIBERIA has 1 sense:

1. a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters

  Familiarity information: SIBERIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIBERIA (noun)

Meaning:

A vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Siberia"):

Yenisei; Yenisei River; Yenisey; Yenisey River (a Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea)

Stony Tunguska; Tunguska (a river in Siberia that flows northwest to become a tributary of the Yenisei River)

Lower Tunguska; Tunguska (a river that arises north of Lake Baikal and flows north and west to the Yenisei River)

Sayan Mountains (a range of mountains in southern Siberia west of Lake Baikal; contain important mineral deposits)

Ob; Ob River (a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea)

Lena; Lena River (a Russian river in Siberia; flows northward into the Laptev Sea)

Irtish; Irtish River; Irtysh; Irtysh River (an Asian river that rises in the Altai Mountains in northern China and flows generally northwest to become a tributary of the Ob River)

Indigirka; Indigirka River (a river in far eastern Siberia that flows generally northward to the Arctic Ocean)

Khabarovsk (an administrative territory in Russia on the eastern coast of Siberia)

Kamchatka Peninsula (a peninsula in eastern Siberia; between Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk)

Taimyr Peninsula; Taymyr Peninsula (a peninsula in northern Siberia)

Angara; Angara River; Tunguska; Upper Tunguska (a river in southeastern Siberia that flows northwest from Lake Baikal to become a tributary of the Yenisei River)

Lake Baikal; Lake Baykal (the largest freshwater lake in Asia or Europe and the deepest lake in the world)

Bay of Ob; Gulf of Ob (an inlet of the Kara Sea in western Siberia)

Meronyms (members of "Siberia"):

Nganasan (a member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia)

Ostyak-Samoyed; Selkup (one of the people of mixed Ostyak and Samoyed origin in Siberia)

Yeniseian (a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia)

Siberian (a native or inhabitant of Siberia)

Holonyms ("Siberia" is a part of...):

Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)