REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Republic of Tajikistan mean? 

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

1. a landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUBLIC OF TAJIKISTAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked mountainous republic in southeast central Asia to the north of Afghanistan; formerly an Asian soviet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Republic of Tajikistan; Tadjik; Tadzhik; Tadzhikistan; Tajik; Tajikistan

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Republic of Tajikistan"):

capital of Tajikistan; Dusanbe; Dushanbe; Dyushambe; Stalinabad (the capital of Tajikistan; formerly Stalinabad 1926-1991)

Communism Peak; Mount Communism; Mount Garmo; Stalin Peak (the highest mountain peak in the Pamir Mountains; near the Chinese border in northeastern Tajikistan (24,590 feet high))

Pamir Mountains; the Pamirs (a mountain range in central Asia that is centered in Tajikistan but extends into Kyrgyzstan and Afghanistan and Pakistan and western China)

Meronyms (members of "Republic of Tajikistan"):

Tadzhik; Tajik (a native or inhabitant of Tajikistan and neighboring areas of Uzbekistan and Afghanistan and China)

Holonyms ("Republic of Tajikistan" is a part of...):

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

Holonyms ("Republic of Tajikistan" is a member of...):

CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)