TURKMENISTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Turkmenistan mean? 

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

1. a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURKMENISTAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Turkmen; Turkmenia; Turkmenistan; Turkomen

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Turkmenistan"):

Ashkhabad; capital of Turkmenistan (the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan)

Kara Kum; Qara Qum; Turkestan Desert (a desert in Turkmenistan to the south of the Aral Sea)

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

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 ("Turkmenistan" is a member of...):

CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)

 Context examples 

Some cross political boundaries, such as the Caspian Sea, which is shared by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)