BOTSWANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Botswana mean? 

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

1. a landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• BOTSWANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in south-central Africa that became independent from British control in the 1960s

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Botswana; Republic of Botswana

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Botswana"):

capital of Botswana; Gaborone (capital and largest city of Botswana in the extreme southeast)

Kalahari; Kalahari Desert (a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana)

Meronyms (members of "Botswana"):

Herero (a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola)

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

Batswana; Bechuana; Tswana (a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa)

Holonyms ("Botswana" 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)

 Context examples 

Why are drylands changing in the Chobe district of Northern Botswana?

(Land cover change in Botswana savannas: Don't blame the elephants, National Science Foundation)

But huge subterranean water reserves lie under the Kalahari, which covers parts of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

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

(Botswanan, NCI Thesaurus)

This study of ethnically diverse populations in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Botswana has shed light on regions of the genome not previously associated with skin color.

(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)