KENYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kenya mean? 

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

1. a republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1963; major archeological discoveries have been made in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KENYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1963; major archeological discoveries have been made in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kenya; Republic of Kenya

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Kenya"):

capital of Kenya; Nairobi (the capital and largest city of Kenya; a center for tourist safaris)

Kisumu (a port city in western Kenya on the northeastern shore of Lake Victoria; fishing and trading center)

Mombasa (a port city in southern Kenya on a coral island in a bay of the Indian Ocean)

Nakuru (a city in western Kenya; commercial center of an agricultural region)

Meronyms (members of "Kenya"):

Kenyan (a native or inhabitant of Kenya)

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

East Africa (a geographical area in eastern Africa)

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:

Kenyan (of or relating to or characteristic of Kenya or its people)

 Context examples 

Eliud Kipchoge from Kenya ran a marathon in less than two hours.

(Eliud Kipchoge of Kenya runs marathon under two hours, Wikinews)

Researchers have used mathematical modelling to develop techniques to combat two co-infecting viruses causing maize lethal necrosis (MLN) in Kenya.

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

The women-only record of 2:17:01, held by Mary Jepkosgei Keitany also from Kenya, remained intact.

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

After the plains of southern Kenya experienced a severe drought in 2009 that took a terrible toll on wildlife, researchers looked at how 50 wild baboons coped with the drought, and whether the conditions they faced in infancy played a role.

(Born during a drought: Bad news for baboons, NSF)

Thanks to the work in Kenya of Hussein Isack, who electrified me as an 11-year-old when I heard him speak in Cape Town, we’ve long known that people can increase their rate of finding bees’ nests by collaborating with honeyguides, sometimes following them for over a kilometre.

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

Unfortunately, increasing nutrient concentrations and the consequences of eutrophication have been recorded for most of the ancient lakes, including Victoria (on the border of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), Baikal (Russia), Valencia (Venezuela), Titicaca (Peru) and Ohrid (Macedonia).

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)

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)

Brigid Kosgei of Kenya won the 2019 Chicago Marathon and broke the long-standing marathon world record for women competing in mixed-sex marathons.

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