TANGANYIKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tanganyika mean? 

• TANGANYIKA (noun)
  The noun TANGANYIKA has 2 senses:

1. the longest lake in the world in central Africa between Tanzania and Congo in the Great Rift Valley

2. a former state in East Africa; united with Zanzibar in 1964 to form Tanzania

  Familiarity information: TANGANYIKA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TANGANYIKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The longest lake in the world in central Africa between Tanzania and Congo in the Great Rift Valley

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Lake Tanganyika; Tanganyika

Instance hypernyms:

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

Holonyms ("Tanganyika" 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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A former state in East Africa; united with Zanzibar in 1964 to form Tanzania

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

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

Tanzania; United Republic of Tanzania (a republic in eastern Africa)