TUNISIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Tunisia mean? 

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

1. a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean coast; achieved independence from France in 1956

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TUNISIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean coast; achieved independence from France in 1956

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Republic of Tunisia; Tunisia

Context example:

southern Tunisia is mostly desert

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Tunisia"):

capital of Tunisia; Tunis (the capital and principal port of Tunisia)

Ariana; Ehadhamen (city in Tunisia)

Gafsa (a city in west central Tunisia)

Safaqis; Sfax (the second largest city in Tunisia; located in eastern Tunisia near a phosphate region)

Sousse; Susa; Susah (a port city in eastern Tunisia on the Mediterranean)

Atlas Mountains (a mountain range in northern Africa between the Mediterranean and the Sahara Desert; extends from southwestern Morocco to northern Tunisia)

Meronyms (members of "Tunisia"):

Tunisian (a native or inhabitant of Tunisia)

Domain member region:

battle of Zama; Zama (the battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War)

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

Maghreb; Mahgrib (the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia)

Holonyms ("Tunisia" 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:

Tunisian (of or relating to Tunisia or its inhabitants)

 Context examples 

A country in northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Morocco and Tunisia.

(Algeria, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Northern Africa, bordering the Mediterranean Sea, between Morocco and Tunisia.

(Algeria, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

Denotes a person having origins in a northern country of Africa such as Egypt, Sudan, Libya, Algeria, Morocco, or Tunisia.

(North Coast of Africa, NCI Thesaurus)

In collaboration with other research groups based in Paris, Tunisia, and Almeria, the UGR scientists have focused on purifying the phenolic compounds found in cocoa bean extract and testing their toxicity at the cellular level.

(Scientists identify bioactive compounds in cacao pods to develop drugs to combat skeletal disorders, University of Granada)

In practice, the term mainly refers to people originated from forty-eight sub-Saharan Africa nations; and excudes individuals from North Africa countries, e.g. such as Algeria, Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia with Arab and Berber ethnicity.

(African, NCI Thesaurus)