DARFUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Darfur mean? 

• DARFUR (noun)
  The noun DARFUR has 1 sense:

1. an impoverished region of western Sudan

  Familiarity information: DARFUR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DARFUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An impoverished region of western Sudan

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Context example:

Darfur was a semi-independent sultanate until 1917 and is ethnically distinct from central Sudan

Instance hypernyms:

district; dominion; territorial dominion; territory (a region marked off for administrative or other purposes)

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

Republic of the Sudan; Soudan; Sudan (a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956)