SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does South American country mean? 

• SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY (noun)
  The noun SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY has 1 sense:

1. any one of the countries occupying the South American continent

  Familiarity information: SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH AMERICAN COUNTRY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any one of the countries occupying the South American continent

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

South American country; South American nation

Hypernyms ("South American country" is a kind of...):

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Instance hyponyms:

Argentina; Argentine Republic (a republic in southern South America; second largest country in South America)

Chile; Republic of Chile (a republic in southern South America on the western slopes of the Andes on the south Pacific coast)

Colombia; Republic of Colombia (a republic in northwestern South America with a coastline on the Pacific Ocean and the Caribbean Sea; achieved independence from Spain in 1821 under the leadership of Simon Bolivar; Spanish is the official language)

Ecuador; Republic of Ecuador (a republic in northwestern South America; became independent from Spain in 1822; the landscape is dominated by the Andes)

Bolivia; Republic of Bolivia (a landlocked republic in central South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain)

Brasil; Brazil; Federative Republic of Brazil (the largest Latin American country and the largest Portuguese speaking country in the world; located in the central and northeastern part of South America; world's leading coffee exporter)

British Guiana; Co-operative Republic of Guyana; Guyana (a republic in northeastern South America; formerly part of the British Empire, but it achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966)

Paraguay; Republic of Paraguay (a landlocked republic in south central South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1811)

Peru; Republic of Peru (a republic in western South America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; was the heart of the Inca empire from the 12th to 16th centuries)

Dutch Guiana; Netherlands Guiana; Republic of Suriname; Surinam; Suriname (a republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1975)

Uruguay (a South American republic on the southeast coast of South America; achieved independence from Brazil in 1825)

Republic of Venezuela; Venezuela (a republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil)

Holonyms ("South American country" is a part of...):

South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)

 Context examples 

And just recently, the South American country of Paraguay was certified to be malaria-free.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)