TURKMENISTAN
Dictionary entry overview: What does Turkmenistan mean?
• TURKMENISTAN (noun)
The noun TURKMENISTAN has 1 sense:
1. a republic in Asia east of the Caspian Sea and south of Kazakhstan and north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991
Familiarity information: TURKMENISTAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• TURKMENISTAN (noun)
Meaning:
A republic in Asia east of the Caspian Sea and south of Kazakhstan and north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Turkmenia; Turkmenistan; Turkomen; Turkmen
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Turkmenistan"):
Ashkhabad; capital of Turkmenistan (the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan)
Kara Kum; Qara Qum; Turkestan Desert (a desert in Turkmenistan south of the Aral Sea)
Holonyms ("Turkmenistan" 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)
Holonyms ("Turkmenistan" is a member of...):
CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)
