NAMIBIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Namibia mean? 

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

1. a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NAMIBIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Namibia; Republic of Namibia; South West Africa

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Namibia"):

Windhoek (capital of Namibia in the center of the country)

Kalahari; Kalahari Desert (a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana)

Namib Desert (a desert in Namibia extending along the coast between the high plateau and the Atlantic Ocean)

Meronyms (members of "Namibia"):

Herero (a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola)

Namibian (a native or inhabitant of Namibia)

Domain region:

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 ("Namibia" 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:

Namibian (of or relating to Namibia or its people)

 Context examples 

They found that trading just 9 per cent of the fish caught annually in Namibia locally would solve the country’s iron deficiency problems.

(Fairer fish trade could fix nutrient deficiencies in coastal countries, SciDev.Net)

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

(Namibian, NCI Thesaurus)

But huge subterranean water reserves lie under the Kalahari, which covers parts of Botswana, Namibia and South Africa.

(Sleeping sands of the Kalahari awaken after more than 10,000 years, NSF)

NuSTAR joins NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, and the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in Namibia, each with its own unique strengths, to better understand the evolution of these not-so-peaceful dead stars.

(Pulse of a Dead Star Powers Intense Gamma Rays, NASA)

In Namibia, an example mentioned in the study, most of the fish is caught by local fleets, but then immediately exported, while 47 per cent of the country’s coastal population suffers from severe iron deficiency.

(Fairer fish trade could fix nutrient deficiencies in coastal countries, SciDev.Net)