REPUBLIC OF GHANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Republic of Ghana mean? 

• REPUBLIC OF GHANA (noun)
  The noun REPUBLIC OF GHANA has 1 sense:

1. a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea

  Familiarity information: REPUBLIC OF GHANA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUBLIC OF GHANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Ghana; Gold Coast; Republic of Ghana

Context example:

Ghana was colonized as the Gold Coast by the British

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Republic of Ghana"):

Lake Volta (the Volta river in southeastern has been dammed to create one of the world's largest man-made lakes)

Accra; capital of Ghana (the capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port)

Kumasi (a city in southern Ghana)

Tamale (a city in northern Ghana)

Volta (a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin)

Meronyms (members of "Republic of Ghana"):

Ewe (a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana)

Ghanian (a native or inhabitant of Ghana)

Holonyms ("Republic of Ghana" 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)