CHILE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Chile mean? 

• CHILE (noun)
  The noun CHILE has 2 senses:

1. a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast

2. very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency

  Familiarity information: CHILE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHILE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Chile; Republic of Chile

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Chile"):

Cape Horn (a rocky headland belonging to Chile at the southernmost tip of South America (south of Tierra del Fuego))

Valparaiso (the chief port and second largest city of Chile; located on a wide harbor in central Chile)

Cape Froward (a cape on the Strait of Magellan in southern Chile; the most southern point on the mainland of South America)

Atacama Desert (a desert in western Chile that extends roughly 600 miles south from the Peruvian border; one of the driest areas in the world, but rich in nitrate and copper deposits)

Guallatiri (the world's highest volcano; in the Andes in northern Chile; last erupted in 1959)

Lascar (a volcano in the Andes in Chile)

Tupungatito (an inactive volcano in central Chile; last erupted in 1959)

Andes (a mountain range in South America running 5000 miles along the Pacific coast)

El Muerto (a mountain peak in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (21,457 feet high))

Llullaillaco (a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,057 feet high))

Ojos del Salado (a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,572 feet high))

Tupungato (a mountain in the Andes on the border between Argentina and Chile (22,310 feet high))

Tierra del Fuego (an archipelago off southern South America; separated from the continent by the Strait of Magellan; islands are administered by Chile and by Argentina)

Vina del Mar (a resort city on the Pacific in central Chile)

Temuco (a city in central Chile to the south of Concepcion)

Punta Arenas (a city in southern Chile on the Strait of Magellan; the southernmost city in the world)

capital of Chile; Gran Santiago; Santiago; Santiago de Chile (the capital and largest city of Chile; located in central Chile; one of the largest cities in South America)

Chiloe (the largest Chilean island and the only one to be settled; located off south-central Chile)

Antofagasta (a port city on the Pacific in northern Chile)

Patagonia (region in southern South America between the Andes and the South Atlantic)

Meronyms (members of "Chile"):

Chilean (a native or inhabitant of Chile)

Domain member region:

Manuel Rodriquez Patriotic Front (a terrorist group formed in 1983 as the armed wing of the Chilean Communist Party)

Lautaro Faction of the United Popular Action Movement; Lautaro Popular Rebel Forces; Lautaro Youth Movement (a violent terrorist group organized in the 1980s and advocating the overthrow of the Chilean military government; leaders are mainly criminals or impoverished youths)

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

South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)

Holonyms ("Chile" is a member of...):

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

Derivation:

Chilean (of or relating to or characteristic of Chile or its people)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Very hot and finely tapering pepper of special pungency

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

chile; chili; chili pepper; chilli; chilly

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

hot pepper (any of various pungent capsicum fruits)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chile"):

jalapeno; jalapeno pepper (hot green or red pepper of southwestern United States and Mexico)

cayenne; cayenne pepper (a long and often twisted hot red pepper)

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

Capsicum annuum longum; cayenne; cayenne pepper; chili pepper; chilli pepper; jalapeno; long pepper (plant bearing very hot and finely tapering long peppers; usually red)

Holonyms ("chile" is a substance of...):

chili powder (powder made of ground chili peppers mixed with e.g. cumin and garlic and oregano)

 Context examples 

The ALMA Observatory in Chile has detected dust around the closest star to the Solar System, Proxima Centauri.

(ALMA Discovers Cold Dust Around Nearest Star, ESO)

At 3 a.m. on March 3, 2015, Villarrica, one of Chile's most active, blew its top in a spectacular fire fountain.

(Listen to the pulse of an erupting volcano, NSF)

This exoplanet system is called TRAPPIST-1, named for The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile.

(NASA Telescope Reveals Largest Batch of Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Around Single Star, NASA)

This exoplanet system is called TRAPPIST-1, named for The Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) in Chile.

(Seven Earth-Size, Habitable-Zone Planets Found, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A country in western South America, bordering the South Pacific Ocean, between Chile and Ecuador.

(Peru, NCI Thesaurus)

A newly discovered, roughly Earth-sized planet orbiting our nearest neighboring star might be habitable, according to a team of astronomers using the European Southern Observatory's 3.6-meter telescope at La Silla, Chile.

(ESO Discovers Earth-Size Planet in Habitable Zone of Nearest Star, NASA)

Combining observational data with theoretical models, the team of astronomers from the UK, Chile and Germany were able to paint a clearer image of this unique system.

(First Giant Planet around White Dwarf Found, ESO)

The observations from which this image was created were taken with ESO’s VLT Survey Telescope (VST), located at ESO’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.

(VST Captures Three-In-One, ESO)

Then, if storms form on the road over the ocean or when entering Chile, the particles do not arrive.

(Australian bushfire smoke drifts to South America, SciDev.Net)

Montargès and his team needed the VLT at Cerro Paranal in Chile to study the star, which is over 700 light-years away, and gather clues on its dimming.

(ESO Telescope Sees Surface of Dim Betelgeuse, ESO)