MAURITANIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Mauritania mean? 

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

1. a country in northwestern Africa with a provisional military government; achieved independence from France in 1960; largely western Sahara Desert

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• MAURITANIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A country in northwestern Africa with a provisional military government; achieved independence from France in 1960; largely western Sahara Desert

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Islamic Republic of Mauritania; Mauritania; Mauritanie; Muritaniya

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Mauritania"):

Nouakchott (capital of Mauritania; located in western Mauritania near the Atlantic coast)

Meronyms (members of "Mauritania"):

Mauritanian (a native or inhabitant of Mauritania)

Holonyms ("Mauritania" 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 ("Mauritania" 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)

Derivation:

Mauritanian (of or related to the island or country of Mauritius or its inhabitants)