SIBERIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Siberia mean? 

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

1. a vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIBERIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Meronyms (parts of "Siberia"):

Khabarovsk (an administrative territory in Russia on the eastern coast of Siberia)

Yenisei; Yenisei River; Yenisey; Yenisey River (a Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea)

Stony Tunguska; Tunguska (a river in Siberia that flows northwest to become a tributary of the Yenisei River)

Lower Tunguska; Tunguska (a river that arises to the north of Lake Baikal and flows north and west to the Yenisei River)

Sayan Mountains (a range of mountains in southern Siberia to the west of Lake Baikal; contain important mineral deposits)

Ob; Ob River (a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea)

Lena; Lena River (a Russian river in Siberia; flows northward into the Laptev Sea)

Irtish; Irtish River; Irtysh; Irtysh River (an Asian river that rises in the Altai Mountains in northern China and flows generally northwest to become a tributary of the Ob River)

Indigirka; Indigirka River (a river in far eastern Siberia that flows generally northward to the Arctic Ocean)

Bay of Ob; Gulf of Ob (an inlet of the Kara Sea in western Siberia)

Baikal; Baykal; Lake Baikal; Lake Baykal (the largest freshwater lake in Asia or Europe and the deepest lake in the world)

Angara; Angara River; Tunguska; Upper Tunguska (a river in southeastern Siberia that flows northwest from Lake Baikal to become a tributary of the Yenisei River)

Taimyr Peninsula; Taymyr Peninsula (a peninsula in northern Siberia)

Kamchatka Peninsula (a peninsula in eastern Siberia; between Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk)

Meronyms (members of "Siberia"):

Nganasan (a member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia)

Ostyak-Samoyed; Selkup (one of the people of mixed Ostyak and Samoyed origin in Siberia)

Yeniseian (a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia)

Siberian (a native or inhabitant of Siberia)

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

Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)

Derivation:

Siberian (of or relating to or characteristic of Siberia or the Siberians)

 Context examples 

This discovery was based on the DNA analysis of a 10,000-year-old male remains found at a site near the Kolyma River in Siberia.

(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)

June 30 marks the 109th anniversary of the “Tunguska event” in Siberia – the largest-ever recorded explosion of a space object plunging to Earth.

(Dangerous Asteroid Could Hit Earth At Any Moment, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

High concentrations of atmospheric methane have been measured at individual Arctic sites, especially in Siberia.

(Alaska Shows No Signs of Rising Arctic Methane, NASA)

I knew that he still had the diary, for when I was in Siberia I had a letter from him once, reproaching me and quoting some passages from its pages.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The native people inhabiting the Arctic of northern Canada, Greenland, Alaska, or eastern Siberia.

(Eskimo, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers observed that roughly 5,000 years ago, thermokarst lakes in ice-rich regions of North Siberia and Alaska began cooling, instead of warming the atmosphere.

(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)

“Siberia lies off there,” I said, pointing to the west. “But to the south-west, some six hundred miles, is Japan. If this wind should hold, we’ll make it in five days.”

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

The magnetic North Pole is currently shifting toward Siberia, forcing the Global Positioning System that underlies modern navigation to update its software sooner than expected.

(Earth's last magnetic field reversal took far longer than once thought, National Science Foundation)

They also reported the mother's DNA was not closely related to that of other Neanderthals found in the cave, suggesting multiple migrations of Neanderthals between Siberia and Europe.

(Fossil genome shows hybrid of two extinct species of human, Wikinews)

According to researchers, woolly mammoths were once very common in North America, Siberia and Beringia, which is the land bridge that used to exist between current day Russia and the U.S. state of Alaska.

(Genetic ‘Mutational Meltdown’ Doomed Woolly Mammoths, VOA)