ABYSSINIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Abyssinia mean? 

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

1. Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABYSSINIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Abyssinia; Ethiopia; Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Yaltopya

Instance hypernyms:

African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Abyssinia"):

Addis Ababa; capital of Ethiopia; New Flower (the capital of Ethiopia and the country's largest city; located in central Ethiopia)

Lake Tana; Lake Tsana (a lake in northern Ethiopia; the largest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile)

Meronyms (members of "Abyssinia"):

Ethiopian (a native or inhabitant of Ethiopia)

Domain member category:

Rastafarian ((Ethiopia) adherents of an African religion that regards Ras Tafari as divine)

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

Horn of Africa; Somali peninsula (a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia)

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)