VENEZUELA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Venezuela mean? 

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

1. a republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• VENEZUELA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in northern South America on the Caribbean; achieved independence from Spain in 1811; rich in oil

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Republic of Venezuela; Venezuela

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Venezuela"):

capital of Venezuela; Caracas (the capital and largest city of Venezuela)

Ciudad Bolivar (a port in eastern Venezuela on the Orinoco river)

Cumana (a port city in northeastern Venezuela on the Caribbean Sea; founded in 1523, it is the oldest European settlement in South America)

Maracaibo (a port city in northwestern Venezuela; a major oil center)

Maracay (a city in north central Venezuela; cattle center)

Valencia (an industrial city in northern Venezuela)

Angel; Angel Falls (the highest waterfall; has more than one leap; flow varies seasonally)

Arauca (a river that rises in northern Colombia and flows generally eastward to the Orinoco in central Venezuela)

Cuquenan; Cuquenan Falls; Kukenaam; Kukenaam Falls (a famous waterfall in Venezuela)

Orinoco; Orinoco River (a South American river 1,500 miles long; flows into the South Atlantic)

Meronyms (members of "Venezuela"):

Venezuelan (a native or inhabitant of Venezuela)

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

South America (a continent in the western hemisphere connected to North America by the Isthmus of Panama)

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

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)

OPEC; Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum)

Derivation:

Venezuelan (of or relating to or characteristic of Venezuela or its people)

 Context examples 

Ten countries account for 95 percent of this carbon storage potential, led by Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela and Mexico.

(Natural regeneration of tropical forests helps global climate mitigation and forest restoration, NSF)

Island in the Caribbean Sea, north of Venezuela.

(Aruba, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

An island in the Caribbean Sea, north of Venezuela and west of Curacao.

(Aruba, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in northern South America, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Suriname and Venezuela.

(Guyana, NCI Thesaurus)

These islands curve southward from the bottom tip of Florida to the Northwest of Venezuela in South America.

(Caribbean, NCI Thesaurus)

Three islands comprising the Caribbean portion of the Netherlands, north of Venezuela and east of Curacao.

(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Northern South America, bordering the Caribbean Sea, between Panama and Venezuela, and bordering the North Pacific Ocean, between Ecuador and Panama.

(Colombia, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

They verified that a total of 14,003 species of seed plant (any plant that bears seeds) exist in the Amazon forest stretching from Brazil to Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia, Peru, Venezuela, the Guianas, and Suriname.

(Inventory revises down Amazon tree species list, SciDev.Net)

Unfortunately, increasing nutrient concentrations and the consequences of eutrophication have been recorded for most of the ancient lakes, including Victoria (on the border of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), Baikal (Russia), Valencia (Venezuela), Titicaca (Peru) and Ohrid (Macedonia).

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

Three Caribbean islands that are part of the Lesser Antilles; Bonaire is east of Aruba and Curacao off the coast of Venezuela, Sint Eustatius and Saba are located south of Sint Maarten and northeast of Saint Kitts and Nevis.

(Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)