BASUTOLAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Basutoland mean? 

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

1. a landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASUTOLAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Basutoland; Kingdom of Lesotho; Lesotho

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Basutoland"):

capital of Lesotho; Maseru (the capital of Lesotho; located in northwestern Lesotho)

Meronyms (members of "Basutoland"):

Basotho (a member of a subgroup of people who inhabit Lesotho)

Sotho (a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages)

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

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)