LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lao People's Democratic Republic mean? 

• LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (noun)
  The noun LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC has 1 sense:

1. a mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949

  Familiarity information: LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Lao People's Democratic Republic; Laos

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Lao People's Democratic Republic"):

capital of Laos; Laotian capital; Vientiane (the capital and largest city of Laos)

Mekong; Mekong River (an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea)

Meronyms (members of "Lao People's Democratic Republic"):

Lao; Laotian (a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais)

Holonyms ("Lao People's Democratic Republic" is a part of...):

Indochina; Indochinese peninsula (a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam)

Holonyms ("Lao People's Democratic Republic" is a member of...):

ASEAN; Association of Southeast Asian Nations (an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism)