TRANSVAAL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Transvaal mean? 

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

1. a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRANSVAAL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Transvaal"):

Rand; Reef; Witwatersrand (a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese)

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

Republic of South Africa; South Africa (a republic at the southernmost part of Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1910; first European settlers were Dutch (known as Boers))