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WITWATERSRAND

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Dictionary entry overview: What does Witwatersrand mean?

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

1. a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese

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

Dictionary entry details

• WITWATERSRAND (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Witwatersrand; Reef; Rand

Instance hypernyms:

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

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

Transvaal (a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers)

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