ETHIOPIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ethiopia mean? 

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

1. Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ETHIOPIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Abyssinia; Ethiopia; Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Yaltopya

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Ethiopia"):

Addis Ababa; capital of Ethiopia; New Flower (the capital of Ethiopia and the country's largest city; located in central Ethiopia)

Lake Tana; Lake Tsana (a lake in northern Ethiopia; the largest lake in Ethiopia and the source of the Blue Nile)

Meronyms (members of "Ethiopia"):

Ethiopian (a native or inhabitant of Ethiopia)

Domain member category:

Rastafarian ((Ethiopia) adherents of an African religion that regards Ras Tafari as divine)

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

Horn of Africa; Somali peninsula (a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia)

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)

Derivation:

Ethiopian (of or relating to or characteristic of Ethiopia or its people or languages)

 Context examples 

The drug is set to enter the second phase of clinical trials in 2017 in Ethiopia.

(Antimalarial candidate holds promise as a single dose, SciDev.Net)

Second and third place went to Ababel Yeshaneh and Gelete Burka, both from Ethiopia, with times of 2:20:51 and 2:20:55, respectively.

(Kenya's Brigid Kosgei sets new world record at Chicago Marathon, Wikinews)

A country in eastern Africa, bordering the Red Sea, between Sudan and Ethiopia.

(Eritrea, NCI Thesaurus)

Scientists have confirmed the absence of microbial life in hot, saline, hyperacid ponds in the Dallol geothermal field in Ethiopia.

(Place discovered on earth with no microbial life, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

MLN has been spreading in Kenya for the last six years, and has also been detected in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania.

(Researchers model ways to control deadly maize disease, SciDev.Net)

Denotes the inhabitants of Ethiopia, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Ethiopian, NCI Thesaurus)

More than 90 per cent of this form of the disease occurs in Brazil, Bolivia, Ethiopia and Peru.

(Study uncovers cause of aggressive leishmaniasis strain, SciDev.Net)

This study of ethnically diverse populations in Ethiopia, Tanzania and Botswana has shed light on regions of the genome not previously associated with skin color.

(New regions of the human genome linked to skin color variation in some African populations, National Institutes of Health)

Once the nest was located, he wrote in his account of life on the eastern African coast in the 17th century, Ethiopia Oriental, the men harvested the honey and the bird fed on the wax.

(How humans and wild Honeyguide birds call each other to help, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

In 2016, researchers working in the Afar region of Ethiopia, some 35 miles away from Hadar, the region in which Lucy, the famous Australopithecus afarensis human ancestor, was found, discovered a nearly complete cranium of another early human ancestor, Australopithecus anamensis, that dates to 3.8 million years ago.

(3.8-million-year-old fossil cranium unveils more about human ancestry, National Science Foundation)