SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does South American country mean? 

• SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY (noun)
  The noun SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY has 1 sense:

1. countries occupying the South American continent

  Familiarity information: SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY (noun)

Meaning:

Countries occupying the South American continent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

South American country; South American nation

Hypernyms ("South American country" is a kind of...):

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Instance hyponyms:

Argentina; Argentine Republic (a republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America)

Republic of Venezuela; Venezuela (a republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil)

Uruguay (a South American republic on the southeast coast of South America; achieved independence from Brazil in 1825)

Dutch Guiana; Netherlands Guiana; Republic of Suriname; Surinam; Suriname (a republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1975)

Peru; Republic of Peru (a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries)

Paraguay; Republic of Paraguay (a landlocked republic in south central South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1811)

British Guiana; Co-operative Republic of Guyana; Guyana (a republic in northeastern South America; achieved independence from England in 1966)

Brasil; Brazil; Federative Republic of Brazil (the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter)

Bolivia; Republic of Bolivia (a landlocked republic in central South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain)

Ecuador; Republic of Ecuador (a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes)

Colombia; Republic of Colombia (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)

Chile; Republic of Chile (a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast)

Holonyms ("South American country" is a part of...):

South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)