NORTH AFRICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does North Africa mean? 

• NORTH AFRICA (noun)
  The noun NORTH AFRICA has 1 sense:

1. an area of northern Africa between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea

  Familiarity information: NORTH AFRICA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTH AFRICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An area of northern Africa between the Sahara and the Mediterranean Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "North Africa"):

Numidia (an ancient kingdom (later a Roman province) in North Africa in an area corresponding roughly to present-day Algeria)

Holonyms ("North Africa" 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)

 Context examples 

The other group is called Sephardic Jews and includes those whose ancestors lived in North Africa, the Middle East, and Spain.

(Ashkenazi Jews, NCI Dictionary)

Earth has dust storms, too, in desert regions such as North Africa, the Middle East and the southwest United States.

(Martian Dust Storm Grows Global: Curiosity Captures Photos of Thickening Haze, NASA)

The other group is designated Sephardic Jews and includes those whose ancestors lived in North Africa, the Middle East, and Spain.

(Ashkenazi Jew, NCI Dictionary)

It is native to Europe, West Asia, North Africa, Madeira and the Azores, and is naturalized in many parts of the world, notably North America and Australia.

(Hypericum perforatum, NCI Thesaurus)

In practice, the term mainly refers to people originated from forty-eight sub-Saharan Africa nations; and excudes individuals from North Africa countries, e.g. such as Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia with Arab and Berber ethnicity.

(African, NCI Thesaurus)