LAOS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Laos mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAOS (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 "Laos"):

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 "Laos"):

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 ("Laos" 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 ("Laos" 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)

Derivation:

Laotian (of or relating to Laos or its people)

 Context examples 

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

(Laotian, NCI Thesaurus)

That includes roughly 600 million people in Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Laos and several other nations, mainly in Southeast Asia, the report said.

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