REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Republic of South Africa mean? 

• REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA (noun)
  The noun REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA has 1 sense:

1. a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Republic of South Africa; South Africa

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Republic of South Africa"):

Cape Town (port city in southwestern South Africa; the seat of the legislative branch of the government of South Africa)

Soweto (a large collection of African townships to the southwest of Johannesburg in South Africa; inhabited solely by Black Africans)

Bloemfontein (the seat of the supreme court)

Cape Colony; Cape of Good Hope Province; Cape Province (a former province of southern South Africa that was settled by the Dutch in 1652 and ceded to Great Britain in 1814; in 1994 it was split into three new provinces of South Africa)

Transvaal (a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers)

Free State; Orange Free State (a province in central South Africa that was colonized by the Boers; named Free State in 1997)

Durban (a port city in eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean; resort and industrial center)

Kimberley (city in central South Africa; center for diamond mining and diamond marketing)

Johannesburg (city in the northeastern part of South Africa near Pretoria; commercial center for diamond and gold industries)

capital of South Africa; Pretoria (city in the Transvaal; the seat of the executive branch of the government of South Africa)

KwaZulu-Natal; Natal (a region of eastern South Africa on the Indian Ocean)

Kalahari; Kalahari Desert (a desert in southwestern Africa - largely Botswana)

Crocodile River; Limpopo (an African river; flows into the Indian Ocean)

Orange; Orange River (a river in South Africa that flows generally westward to the Atlantic Ocean)

Meronyms (members of "Republic of South Africa"):

Sotho (a member of the Bantu people who inhabit Botswana, Lesotho, and northern South Africa and who speak the Sotho languages)

Batswana; Bechuana; Tswana (a member of a Bantu people living chiefly in Botswana and western South Africa)

South African (a native or inhabitant of South Africa)

Xhosa (a member of the Negroid people of southern South Africa)

Domain member region:

caffer; caffre; kaffir; kafir (an offensive and insulting term for any Black African)

trek (a journey by ox wagon (especially an organized migration by a group of settlers))

mealie (an ear of corn)

kopje; koppie (a small hill rising up from the African veld)

Qibla (a small terrorist group of Muslims in South Africa formed in the 1980s; was inspired by Ayatollah Khomeini to create an Islamic state in South Africa)

PAGAD; People against Gangsterism and Drugs (a terrorist organization in South Africa formed in 1996 to fight drug lords; evolved into a vigilante group with anti-western views closely allied with Qibla; is believed to have ties to Islamic extremists in the Middle East; is suspected of conducting bouts of urban terrorism)

biltong (meat that is salted and cut into strips and dried in the sun)

laager; lager (a camp defended by a circular formation of wagons)

Holonyms ("Republic of South 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)

Holonyms ("Republic of South Africa" is a member of...):

British Commonwealth; Commonwealth of Nations (an association of nations consisting of the United Kingdom and several former British colonies that are now sovereign states but still pay allegiance to the British Crown)