MALAWI

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Malawi mean? 

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

1. a landlocked republic in southern central Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MALAWI (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in southern central Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Malawi; Nyasaland; Republic of Malawi

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Malawi"):

Blantyre (city in southern Malawi; largest city and commercial center of Malawi)

capital of Malawi; Lilongwe (the capital of Malawi; located in south central Malawi)

Zomba (a city in southern Malawi; was the capital until 1971)

Lake Malawi; Lake Nyasa (a long lake in southeastern Africa between Tanzania, Mozambique, and Malawi)

Meronyms (members of "Malawi"):

Cewa; Chewa; Chichewa (a member of the Bantu-speaking people of Malawi and eastern Zambia and northern Zimbabwe)

Malawian (a native or inhabitant of Malawi)

Holonyms ("Malawi" 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)

Derivation:

Malawian (relating to or characteristic of Malawi or its people or culture)

 Context examples 

The dinosaur's bones exhibit similarities with another titanosaurian, Malawisaurus dixeyi, previously recovered in Malawi.

(Paleontologists discover new species of titanosaurian dinosaur in Tanzania, NSF)

The wealth of information from the skeleton indicates that it was distantly related to other known African titanosaurs, except for some interesting similarities with another dinosaur, Malawisaurus, from just across the Tanzania-Malawi border.

(New dinosaur with heart-shaped tail offers clues to evolution of Africa's ecosystems, National Science Foundation)