SOUTH WEST AFRICA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does South West Africa mean? 

• SOUTH WEST AFRICA (noun)
  The noun SOUTH WEST AFRICA has 1 sense:

1. a republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTH WEST AFRICA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in southwestern Africa on the south Atlantic coast (formerly called South West Africa); achieved independence from South Africa in 1990; the greater part of Namibia forms part of the high Namibian plateau of South Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Namibia; Republic of Namibia; South West Africa

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "South West Africa"):

Windhoek (capital of Namibia in the center of the country)

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

Namib Desert (a desert in Namibia extending along the coast between the high plateau and the Atlantic Ocean)

Meronyms (members of "South West Africa"):

Herero (a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola)

Namibian (a native or inhabitant of Namibia)

Domain region:

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 ("South West 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)