CENTRAL AFRICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Central Africa mean? 

• CENTRAL AFRICA (noun)
  The noun CENTRAL AFRICA has 1 sense:

1. a landlocked country in central Africa; formerly under French control; became independent in 1960

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• CENTRAL AFRICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked country in central Africa; formerly under French control; became independent in 1960

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Central Africa; Central African Republic

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Central Africa"):

Bangui; capital of Central Africa (the capital and largest city of the Central African Republic)

Holonyms ("Central Africa" 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 

A country in Central Africa, south of Libya.

(Chad, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma is endemic in several regions of the world, in particular Japan, the Caribbean, and parts of Central Africa.

(adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

The strain responsible for this outbreak appeared to diverge as early as 2004 from one found in Central Africa, indicating movement from Central to West Africa over the span of a decade.

(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)

A country in Central Africa, northeast of Angola.

(Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)