NORTHERN IRELAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Northern Ireland mean? 

• NORTHERN IRELAND (noun)
  The noun NORTHERN IRELAND has 1 sense:

1. a division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland

  Familiarity information: NORTHERN IRELAND used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NORTHERN IRELAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A division of the United Kingdom located on the northern part of the island of Ireland

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Northern Ireland"):

Bangor (a town in southeastern Northern Ireland)

Belfast; capital of Northern Ireland (capital and largest city of Northern Ireland; the center of Protestantism in Northern Ireland)

Domain member region:

Loyalist Volunteer Force (a terrorist group formed in 1996 in Northern Ireland; seeks to prevent the peace process; murders Catholics and any Protestant leaders who favor peace)

Association of Orangemen; Orange Order (a Protestant political organization in Northern Ireland)

Orange Group; OV (a terrorist group of Protestants who oppose any political settlement with Irish nationalists; a paramilitary group that attacks Catholic interests in Northern Ireland)

Red Hand Defenders; RHD (a paramilitary group of Protestants in Northern Ireland that tries to prevent any political settlement with the Irish Republic; attacks interests of Catholic civilians in Northern Ireland; responsible for arson and bombing and murder)

UDA; Ulster Defence Association (the major Protestant paramilitary group in Northern Ireland; responsible for bombing the homes of Catholics and for criminal racketeering and selling drugs)

Holonyms ("Northern Ireland" is a part of...):

Emerald Isle; Hibernia; Ireland (an island comprising the republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland)

Britain; Great Britain; U.K.; UK; United Kingdom; United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (a monarchy in northwestern Europe occupying most of the British Isles; divided into England and Scotland and Wales and Northern Ireland; 'Great Britain' is often used loosely to refer to the United Kingdom)

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

 Context examples 

Parboiling husked whole grain, on the other hand, not only reduces arsenic by 25 per cent, but also increases its calcium content significantly, according to the researchers from Bangladesh and Northern Ireland.

(Parboiling husked rice reduces arsenic content, SciDev.Net)