BRITISH WEST AFRICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does British West Africa mean? 

• BRITISH WEST AFRICA (noun)
  The noun BRITISH WEST AFRICA has 1 sense:

1. the former British territories of western Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Togo, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast

  Familiarity information: BRITISH WEST AFRICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRITISH WEST AFRICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The former British territories of western Africa, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Gambia, Togo, Sierra Leone, and the Gold Coast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("British West Africa" is a kind of...):

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

Holonyms ("British West Africa" is a part of...):

West Africa (an area of western Africa between the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea)

Holonyms ("British West Africa" is a member of...):

British Empire (a former empire consisting of Great Britain and all the territories under its control; reached its greatest extent at the end of World War I; it included the British Isles, British West Indies, Canada, British Guiana; British West Africa, British East Africa, India, Australia, New Zealand)