SYRIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Syria mean? 

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

1. an Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• SYRIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An Asian republic in the Middle East at the east end of the Mediterranean; site of some of the world's most ancient centers of civilization

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Syria; Syrian Arab Republic

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Syria"):

capital of Syria; Damascus; Dimash (an ancient city (widely regarded as the world's oldest) and present capital and largest city of Syria; according to the New Testament, the Apostle Paul (then known as Saul) underwent a dramatic conversion on the road to Damascus)

Alep; Aleppo; Halab (a city in northwestern Syria)

Al Ladhiqiyah; Latakia (a seaport on the western coast of Syria)

Kurdistan (an extensive geographical region in the Middle East to the south of the Caucasus)

Syrian Desert (a desert of northern Arabia occupying western Iraq, southern Syria, eastern Jordan, and northern Saudi Arabia)

Euphrates; Euphrates River (a river in southwestern Asia; flows into the Persian Gulf; was important in the development of several great civilizations in ancient Mesopotamia)

Tigris; Tigris River (an Asian river; a tributary of the Euphrates River)

Meronyms (members of "Syria"):

Syrian (a native or inhabitant of Syria)

Domain member region:

Popular Struggle Front; PSF (a terrorist group of radical Palestinians who split with al-Fatah in 1967 but now have close relations with al-Fatah; staged terrorist attacks against Israel across the Lebanese border)

Instance hyponyms:

Aram (the biblical name for ancient Syria)

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

Middle East; Mideast; Near East (the area around the eastern Mediterranean; from Turkey to northern Africa and eastward to Iran; the site of such ancient civilizations as Phoenicia and Babylon and Egypt and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity and Islam; had continuous economic and political turmoil in the 20th century)

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 ("Syria" 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)

Derivation:

Syrian (of or relating to or characteristic of Syria or its people or culture)

 Context examples 

Sixteen countries, including areas of conflict such as Syria and Yemen, witnessed a decrease, and 39 countries, including the U.S., stayed the same.

(Study: Earth’s Night Skies Getting Brighter, VOA)

A country in the Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Israel and Syria.

(Lebanon, NCI Thesaurus)

A collective term used to identify indigenous peoples of northern Iraq and neighboring areas of Syria and Turkey, who also identify themselves as Aramaeans and Chaldeans.

(Assyrian, NCI Thesaurus)

It is my analysis of the documents found in the Coptic monasteries of Syria and Egypt, a work which will cut deep at the very foundation of revealed religion.

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

He was under Miller, as third lieutenant of the Theseus, when our fleet, like a pack of eager fox hounds in a covert, was dashing from Sicily to Syria and back again to Naples, trying to pick up the lost scent.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Poor simple lad! he had not learned yet that what men are and what men profess to be are very wide asunder, and that the Knights of St. John, having come into large part of the riches of the ill-fated Templars, were very much too comfortable to think of exchanging their palace for a tent, or the cellars of England for the thirsty deserts of Syria.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)