CASHMERE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Cashmere mean? 

• CASHMERE (noun)
  The noun CASHMERE has 3 senses:

1. a soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat

2. the wool of the Kashmir goat

3. an area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India

  Familiarity information: CASHMERE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CASHMERE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A soft fabric made from the wool of the Cashmere goat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

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

cloth; fabric; material; textile (artifact made by weaving or felting or knitting or crocheting natural or synthetic fibers)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The wool of the Kashmir goat

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

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

wool (fiber sheared from animals (such as sheep) and twisted into yarn for weaving)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An area in southwestern Asia whose sovereignty is disputed between Pakistan and India

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Cashmere; Jammu and Kashmir; Kashmir

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Cashmere"):

Line of Control (a 450-mile line that is supposed to indicate the boundary between the part of Kashmir controlled by India and the part controlled by Pakistan)

Karakoram; Karakoram Range; Karakorum Range; Mustagh; Mustagh Range (a mountain range in northern Kashmir; an extension of the Hindu Kush; contains the 2nd highest peak)

Nanga Parbat (a mountain in the Himalayas in Kashmir (26,660 feet high))

Domain member region:

Harakat ul-Jihad-I-Islami; Harkat-ul-Jihad-e-Islami; HUJI (an extremist militant group in Pakistan occupied Kashmir that seeks an Islamic government and that has had close links and fought with the Taliban in Afghanistan)

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

Bharat; India; Republic of India (a republic in the Asian subcontinent in southern Asia; second most populous country in the world; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)

Islamic Republic of Pakistan; Pakistan; West Pakistan (a Muslim republic that occupies the heartland of ancient south Asian civilization in the Indus River valley; formerly part of India; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1947)