ARMENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Armenia mean? 

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

1. a landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet; modern Armenia is but a fragment of ancient Armenia which was one of the world's oldest civilizations; throughout 2500 years the Armenian people have been invaded and oppressed by their neighbors

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ARMENIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet; modern Armenia is but a fragment of ancient Armenia which was one of the world's oldest civilizations; throughout 2500 years the Armenian people have been invaded and oppressed by their neighbors

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Armenia; Hayastan; Republic of Armenia

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Armenia"):

Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church; Armenian Church (an independent Christian church established in Armenia since 300; was influenced by both Roman and Byzantine traditions)

capital of Armenia; Erivan; Jerevan; Yerevan (capital of Armenia)

Aras; Araxes (a river that rises in northeastern Turkey (near the source of the Euphrates) and flows generally eastward through Armenia to the Caspian Sea; ancient name was Araxes)

Meronyms (members of "Armenia"):

Armenian (a native or inhabitant of Armenia)

Domain member region:

3rd October Organization; Armenian Secret Army for the Liberation of Armenia; ASALA; Orly Group (a militant Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization formed in 1975 to force Turkey to acknowledge killing more than a million Armenians and forcibly removing them from border areas in 1915; wants Turkey to pay reparations and cede territory to Armenia)

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

Transcaucasia (a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan)

Holonyms ("Armenia" 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)

Derivation:

Armenian (of or pertaining to Armenia or the people or culture of Armenia)

 Context examples 

Denotes the inhabitants of Armenia, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Armenian, NCI Thesaurus)