BOLIVIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Bolivia mean? 

• BOLIVIA (noun)
  The noun BOLIVIA has 2 senses:

1. a landlocked republic in central South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain

2. a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded

  Familiarity information: BOLIVIA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOLIVIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in central South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Bolivia; Republic of Bolivia

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Bolivia"):

capital of Bolivia; La Paz (capital city in western Bolivia and the administrative seat of Bolivia's government; largest city in Bolivia)

Santa Cruz (a city in central Bolivia)

Sucre (the judicial capital and seat of the judiciary in Bolivia)

Ancohuma (a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,960 feet high))

Andes (a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast)

Illampu (a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (20,870 feet high))

Illimani (a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,201 feet high))

Sajama (a mountain peak in the Andes in Bolivia (21,391 feet high))

Meronyms (members of "Bolivia"):

Bolivian (a native or inhabitant of Bolivia)

Domain member region:

CNPZ; ELN; National Liberation Army; Nestor Paz Zamora Commission (a terrorist organization in Bolivia that acts as an umbrella for numerous small indigenous subversive groups; a revival of a group with Marxist-Leninist ideologies originally established by Che Guevara in the 1960s)

EGTK; Tupac Katari Guerrilla Army (a terrorist group that is the remnants of the original Bolivian insurgents trained by Che Guevara; attacks small unprotected targets such as power pylons or oil pipelines or government buildings)

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

South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)

Holonyms ("Bolivia" is a member of...):

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

Derivation:

Bolivian (of or relating to or characteristic of Bolivia or its people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A form of canasta in which sequences can be melded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("bolivia" is a kind of...):

basket rummy; canasta; meld (a form of rummy using two decks of cards and four jokers; jokers and deuces are wild; the object is to form groups of the same rank)

 Context examples 

More than 90 per cent of this form of the disease occurs in Brazil, Bolivia, Ethiopia and Peru.

(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)

Besides these, we had engaged three Mojo Indians from Bolivia, who are the most skilful at fishing and boat work of all the river tribes.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A high elevation plateau in southeastern Peru and western Bolivia, elevation about 3500 m.

(Altiplano, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

They verified that a total of 14,003 species of seed plant (any plant that bears seeds) exist in the Amazon forest stretching from Brazil to Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, the Guianas, and Suriname.

(Inventory revises down Amazon tree species list, SciDev.Net)

Researchers surmise that ancient farmers migrating there from Bolivia exposed A. duranensis plants to another species they had brought with them—A. ipaensis, considered the other parent of cultivated peanut.

(Peanut Genome Sequenced with Unprecedent Accuracy, U.S. Department of Agriculture)

It will also support airspace surveillance over the borders with Bolivia and Paraguay.

(First Brazilian satellite starts operations, Agência Brasil)

I don't know what is inside this envelope, but, unless it is something pretty definite, I shall be much tempted to take the next down-river boat and catch the Bolivia at Para.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)