SIERRA LEONE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Sierra Leone mean? 

• SIERRA LEONE (noun)
  The noun SIERRA LEONE has 1 sense:

1. a republic in West Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1961

  Familiarity information: SIERRA LEONE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SIERRA LEONE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in West Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1961

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Republic of Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Sierra Leone"):

capital of Sierra Leone; Freetown (port city and the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone)

Meronyms (members of "Sierra Leone"):

Sierra Leonean (a native or inhabitant of Sierra Leone)

Domain member region:

Revolutionary United Front; RUF (a terrorist group formed in the 1980s in Sierra Leone; seeks to overthrow the government and gain control of the diamond producing regions; responsible for attacks on civilians and children, widespread torture and murder and using children to commit atrocities; sponsored by the president of Liberia)

Holonyms ("Sierra Leone" 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)

Derivation:

Sierra Leonean (of or relating to Sierra Leone or its people)

 Context examples 

The siEbola-3 agent is currently being administered to Ebola-infected patients in Sierra Leone in a phase 2 study.

(Lipid Nanoparticle Therapeutic Treats Ebola in Monkeys, NIH)

The virus was brought into Sierra Leone by 14 people who had been in nearby Guinea to attend the funeral of a traditional healer who had treated Ebola patients.

(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)

It was a nice question, for the Cape de Verds were about five hundred miles to the north of us, and the African coast about seven hundred to the east. On the whole, as the wind was coming round to the north, we thought that Sierra Leone might be best, and turned our head in that direction, the barque being at that time nearly hull down on our starboard quarter.

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

To better understand this outbreak, an international team led by Dr. Pardis Sabeti at the Broad Institute and Harvard University collected virus samples from 78 patients living in Sierra Leone near the origin of the 2014 outbreak.

(Genetics of the 2014 Ebola Outbreak, NIH)