LEBANON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lebanon mean? 

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

1. an Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEBANON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Asian republic at east end of Mediterranean

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Lebanese Republic; Lebanon

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Lebanon"):

Byblos (an ancient Mediterranean seaport that was a thriving city state in Phoenicia during the second millennium BC; was the chief port for the export of papyrus; located in Lebanon to the north of Beirut; now partially excavated)

Sur; Tyre (a port in southern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea; formerly a major Phoenician seaport famous for silks)

Saida; Sayda; Sidon (the main city of ancient Phoenicia)

Tarabulus; Tarabulus Ash-Sham; Trablous; Tripoli (a port city and commercial center in northwestern Lebanon on the Mediterranean Sea)

Bayrut; Beirut; capital of Lebanon (capital and largest city of Lebanon; located in western Lebanon on the Mediterranean)

Meronyms (members of "Lebanon"):

Lebanese (a native or inhabitant of Lebanon)

Domain member region:

Popular Struggle Front; PSF (a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have close relations with al-Fatah; staged terrorist attacks against Israel across the Lebanese border)

Jabat al-Tahrir al-Filistiniyyah; Palestine Liberation Front; PLF (a terrorist group formed in 1977 as the result of a split with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine; became a satellite of al-Fatah; made terrorist attacks on Israel across the Lebanese border)

Hezbollah; Hizballah; Hizbollah; Hizbullah; Islamic Jihad; Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine; Lebanese Hizballah; Organization of the Oppressed on Earth; Party of God; Revolutionary Justice Organization (a Shiite terrorist organization with strong ties to Iran; seeks to create an Iranian fundamentalist Islamic state in Lebanon; car bombs are the signature weapon)

Force 17 (formed in 1972 as a personal security force for Arafat and other PLO leaders; became one of PLO's elite units; has built an extensive infrastructure of terrorist cells and weapon depots in Europe while attacking Israeli targets)

Abu Nidal Organization; ANO; Arab Revolutionary Brigades; Black September; Fatah-RC; Fatah Revolutionary Council; Revolutionary Organization of Socialist Muslims (a Palestinian international terrorist organization that split from the PLO in 1974; has conducted terrorist attacks in 20 countries)

Asbat al-Ansar; Band of Partisans (an extremist Palestinian Sunni group active in Lebanon in the early 1990s that advocates Salafism; responsible for murders and bombings; seeks to overthrow the Lebanese government and control Palestinian refugee camps; funded by al-Qaeda)

tabbouleh; tabooli (a finely chopped salad with tomatoes and parsley and mint and scallions and bulgur wheat)

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

Middle East; Mideast; Near East (the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century)

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Holonyms ("Lebanon" is a member of...):

Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)

 Context examples 

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

(Lebanese, NCI Thesaurus)

I took the paper from him and read as follows: TO THE RED-HEADED LEAGUE: On account of the bequest of the late Ezekiah Hopkins, of Lebanon, Pennsylvania, U.S.A., there is now another vacancy open which entitles a member of the League to a salary of £ 4 a week for purely nominal services.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Denotes a person having origins in the region of southwest Asia, between the India subcontinent and Europe, including Kuwait, Turkey, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq, Iran, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, lands east of Pakistan or the other countries of the Arabian Peninsula.

(Middle Eastern, NCI Thesaurus)