SURINAME

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Suriname mean? 

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

1. a republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1975

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURINAME (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in northeastern South America on the Atlantic; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1975

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Dutch Guiana; Netherlands Guiana; Republic of Suriname; Surinam; Suriname

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Suriname"):

capital of Suriname; Paramaribo (the capital and largest city and major port of Surinam)

Surinam River; Suriname River (a river in Suriname that flows northward to the Atlantic)

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

Guiana (a geographical region of northeastern South America including Guyana and Surinam)

Holonyms ("Suriname" is a member of...):

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

 Context examples 

A country in northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Suriname and Venezuela.

(Guyana, NCI Thesaurus)

They verified that a total of 14,003 species of seed plant (any plant that bears seeds) exist in the Amazon forest stretching from Brazil to Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, the Guianas, and Suriname.

(Inventory revises down Amazon tree species list, SciDev.Net)