MAGHREB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Maghreb mean? 

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

1. the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAGHREB (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Maghreb; Mahgrib

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Maghreb"):

Algeria; Algerie; Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria (a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim; colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s)

Al-Magrib; Kingdom of Morocco; Maroc; Marruecos; Morocco (a kingdom (constitutional monarchy) in northwestern Africa with a largely Muslim population; achieved independence from France in 1956)

Republic of Tunisia; Tunisia (a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean coast; achieved independence from France in 1956)

Holonyms ("Maghreb" 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)