BURKINA FASO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Burkina Faso mean? 

• BURKINA FASO (noun)
  The noun BURKINA FASO has 1 sense:

1. a desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa; was formerly Upper Volta under French rule but gained independence in 1960

  Familiarity information: BURKINA FASO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BURKINA FASO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa; was formerly Upper Volta under French rule but gained independence in 1960

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Burkina Faso; Upper Volta

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

 Context examples 

The insecticide was then unleashed in a purpose-built 6,550-square-foot ‘village’ in Burkina Faso, containing huts, plants, and breeding pools, and covered in netting to stop the insects escaping.

(Genetically modified fungus hailed as malaria breakthrough, SciDev.Net)

In trials undertaken in Burkina Faso, mosquito numbers were reduced by 99 per cent within 45 days, according to researchers from the University of Maryland (UMD) and the West African nation’s IRSS research institute.

(Genetically modified fungus hailed as malaria breakthrough, SciDev.Net)