STATE OF QATAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does State of Qatar mean? 

• STATE OF QATAR (noun)
  The noun STATE OF QATAR has 1 sense:

1. an Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy is dominated by oil

  Familiarity information: STATE OF QATAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STATE OF QATAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Arab country on the peninsula of Qatar; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1971; the economy is dominated by oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Katar; Qatar; State of Katar; State of Qatar

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "State of Qatar"):

Bida; capital of Qatar; Doha; El Beda (the capital and chief port of Qatar)

Meronyms (members of "State of Qatar"):

Katari; Qatari (a native or inhabitant of Qatar)

Holonyms ("State of Qatar" is a part of...):

Gulf States (the countries in southwestern Asia that border the Persian Gulf)

Katar; Katar Peninsula; Qatar; Qatar Peninsula (a peninsula extending northward from the Arabian mainland into the Persian Gulf)

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 ("State of Qatar" is a member of...):

Arab League (an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation)

OPEC; Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum)