HORN OF AFRICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Horn of Africa mean? 

• HORN OF AFRICA (noun)
  The noun HORN OF AFRICA has 1 sense:

1. a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORN OF AFRICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Horn of Africa; Somali peninsula

Instance hypernyms:

peninsula (a large mass of land projecting into a body of water)

Meronyms (parts of "Horn of Africa"):

Afars and Issas; Djibouti; Republic of Djibouti (a country in northeastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; formerly under French control but became independent in 1997)

Eritrea; State of Eritrea (an African country to the north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Ethiopia in 1993)

Abyssinia; Ethiopia; Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Yaltopya (Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia)

Somalia (a republic in extreme eastern Africa on the Somali peninsula; subject to tribal warfare)

Domain region:

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)

Holonyms ("Horn of 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)