THAILAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Thailand mean? 

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

1. a country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• THAILAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A country of southeastern Asia that extends southward along the Isthmus of Kra to the Malay Peninsula

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kingdom of Thailand; Siam; Thailand

Context example:

Thailand is the official name of the former Siam

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Thailand"):

Bangkok; capital of Thailand; Krung Thep (the capital and largest city and chief port of Thailand; a leading city in southeastern Asia; noted for Buddhist architecture)

Chao Phraya (a river in Thailand formed by the confluence of the Nan and Ping Rivers; flows southward past Bangkok and empties into the Gulf of Thailand)

Mekong; Mekong River (an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea)

Nan; Nan River (a river of western Thailand flowing southward to join the Ping River to form the Chao Phraya)

Ping; Ping River (a river in western Thailand; a major tributary of the Chao Phraya)

Meronyms (members of "Thailand"):

Siamese; Tai; Thai (a native or inhabitant of Thailand)

Domain member region:

Sino-Tibetan; Sino-Tibetan language (the family of tonal languages spoken in eastern Asia)

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

Indochina; Indochinese peninsula (a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam)

Malay Peninsula (a peninsula in southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Myanmar)

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

ASEAN; Association of Southeast Asian Nations (an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism)

 Context examples 

The elephant has long been an important spiritual, cultural and national symbol in Thailand.

(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)

A country in southeastern Asia, north and east of Thailand, west of Vietnam.

(Lao People's Democratic Republic, NCI Thesaurus)

Areas where benefits from agricultural conversion are higher than cost of deforestation were identified as the Atlantic Forest (mostly coastal Brazil), the Gulf of Guinea and Thailand.

(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)

In another just-released study in the journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases, scientists in Thailand have found widespread malaria parasite resistance to artemisinin and combination therapies using artemisinin, considered the gold standard treatment.

(Malaria-carrying Mosquitoes Becoming Resistant to Bed Nets in Southern Africa, VOA)

The highest mortality rates from asthma were recorded in Thailand, Mauritius, Fiji, the Philippines and South Africa.

(Smoother walls healthier for lungs, SciDev.Net)

The Indo-Pacific warm pool, a region between the eastern Indian Ocean and western Pacific Ocean, with ocean temperatures generally warmer than 28 degrees Celsius, has been warming since the 1900s, but during 1981—2018, it expanded at a rate of about 400,000 square kilometres per year — the size of Thailand or Spain, says Roxy Mathew Koll, lead author and climate scientist at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune.

(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)

A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.

(Asian, NCI Thesaurus)

The ecologists show how vital large animals are to maintaining the biodiversity of tropical forests in Thailand.

(Overhunting of large animals has catastrophic effects on trees, NSF)