PARAGUAY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Paraguay mean? 

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

1. a landlocked republic in south central South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1811

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PARAGUAY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in south central South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1811

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Paraguay; Republic of Paraguay

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Paraguay"):

Triple Frontier (the border area where Argentina and Brazil and Paraguay meet; an active South American center for contraband and drug trafficking and money laundering; a suspected locale for Islamic extremist groups)

Asuncion; capital of Paraguay (the capital and chief port of Paraguay)

Parana; Parana River (a South American river; tributary of Rio de la Plata)

Guaira; Guaira Falls; Sete Quedas (a great waterfall on the border between Brazil and Paraguay)

Meronyms (members of "Paraguay"):

Paraguayan (a native or inhabitant of Paraguay)

Holonyms ("Paraguay" is a part of...):

South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)

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

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

Derivation:

Paraguayan (of or relating to or characteristic of Paraguay or its people)

 Context examples 

The technology is entirely developed in Foz do Iguaçu, in the southern state of Paraná, where the power plant controlled by both Brazil and Paraguay is located.

(Biomethane rises as alternate source of energy in Brazil, Agência Brasil)

And just recently, the South American country of Paraguay was certified to be malaria-free.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

It will also support airspace surveillance over the borders with Bolivia and Paraguay.

(First Brazilian satellite starts operations, Agência Brasil)

Ask him the grain output of Paraguay for 1903, or the English importation of sheetings into China for 1890, or at what weight Jimmy Britt fought Battling Nelson, or who was welter-weight champion of the United States in '68, and you'll get the correct answer with the automatic celerity of a slot-machine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)