UNESCO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does UNESCO mean? 

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

1. an agency of the United Nations that promotes education and communication and the arts

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNESCO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An agency of the United Nations that promotes education and communication and the arts

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

UNESCO; United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization

Hypernyms ("UNESCO" is a kind of...):

UN agency; United Nations agency (an agency of the United Nations)

 Context examples 

And the competition for water is likely to increase, with UNESCO estimating 5.7 billion people could struggle to access water for at least one month a year, by 2050.

(Slightly dirty water ‘still ok’ against coronavirus, SciDev.Net)

Others, such as Lake Baikal in Russia, are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

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

The monument was originally created in 2006 by President George W. Bush and designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2010.

(National monument in Hawaii becomes world's largest marine protected area, NOAA)