LIBYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Libya mean? 

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

1. a military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LIBYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A military dictatorship in northern Africa on the Mediterranean; consists almost entirely of desert; a major exporter of petroleum

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Libya; Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Libya"):

capital of Libya; Tarabulus Al-Gharb; Tripoli (the capital and chief port and largest city of Libya; in northwestern Libya on the Mediterranean Sea; founded by the Phoenicians in the 7th century BC)

Benghazi (port in northern Libya on the Gulf of Sidra; formerly a joint capital of Libya with Tripoli)

Libyan Desert (the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan)

Meronyms (members of "Libya"):

Libyan (a native or inhabitant of Libya)

Domain member region:

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)

Al-Jama'a al-Islamiyyah al-Muqatilah bi-Libya; FIG; Libyan Fighting Group; Libyan Islamic Fighting Group; Libyan Islamic Group (a Libyan terrorist group organized in 1995 and aligned with al-Qaeda; seeks to radicalize the Libyan government; attempted to assassinate Qaddafi)

Holonyms ("Libya" 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)

Holonyms ("Libya" 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)

OPEC; Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum)

Derivation:

Libyan (of or relating to Libya or its people)

 Context examples 

A country in central Africa, south of Libya, between Niger and Sudan.

(Chad, NCI Thesaurus)

Denotes a person having origins in a northern country of Africa such as Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, or Tunisia.

(North Coast of Africa, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Central Africa, south of Libya.

(Chad, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)