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COMOROS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Comoros mean?
• COMOROS (noun)
The noun COMOROS has 1 sense:
1. a country on the Comoro Islands
Familiarity information: COMOROS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A country on the Comoro Islands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Comoros; Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Holonyms ("Comoros" is a part of...):
Comoro Islands; Iles Comores (three main islands and numerous islets in the Indian Ocean between Mozambique and Madagascar)
Context examples
A country in southern Africa, occupying an island in the Mozambique Channel, about one-half of the way from northern Madagascar to northern Mozambique, southeast of Comoros.
(Mayotte, NCI Thesaurus)
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