NIGERIA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Nigeria mean? 

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

1. a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• NIGERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Federal Republic of Nigeria; Nigeria

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Nigeria"):

Abuja; capital of Nigeria; Nigerian capital (capital of Nigeria in the center of the country)

Ibadan (a large Yoruba city in southwestern Nigeria; site of a university)

Katsina (a city in northern Nigeria; a major center of the Hausa people)

Lagos (chief port and economic center of Nigeria; located in southwestern Nigeria on the Gulf of Guinea; former capital of Nigeria)

Maiduguri; Yerwa-Maiduguri (a city in northeastern Nigeria; an agricultural trading center)

Zaria (a city in north central Nigeria; agricultural trading center)

Niger; Niger River (an African river; flows into the South Atlantic)

Meronyms (members of "Nigeria"):

Nigerian (a native or inhabitant of Nigeria)

Domain member region:

al Sunna Wal Jamma; Followers of the Prophet (a resurgent Islamic fundamentalist organization based in Nigeria that is thought to be planning terrorist attacks)

Holonyms ("Nigeria" 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 ("Nigeria" is a member of...):

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)

 Context examples 

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

(Nigerian, NCI Thesaurus)

Lassa 0043/LV/14 is circulating in an outbreak in Nigeria that began in 2018.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)

A collaboration among scientists in Japan, the U.K., Canada, China, Nigeria, and the U.S. to develop a haplotype map of the human genome, the HapMap, which will describe the common patterns of human DNA sequence variation.

(International HapMap Project, NCI Thesaurus)

The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston and Profectus BioSciences of New York are developing and testing the candidate quadrivalent VesiculoVax vaccine, with support from NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and Redeemer’s University in Nigeria.

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)