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LAO PEOPLE'S DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A mountainous landlocked communist state in southeastern Asia; achieved independence from France in 1949
Synonyms:
Lao People's Democratic Republic; Laos
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Lao People's Democratic Republic"):
capital of Laos; Laotian capital; Vientiane (the capital and largest city of Laos)
Mekong; Mekong River (an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea)
Meronyms (members of "Lao People's Democratic Republic"):
Lao; Laotian (a member of a Buddhist people inhabiting the area of the Mekong River in Laos and Thailand and speaking the Lao language; related to the Thais)
Holonyms ("Lao People's Democratic Republic" is a part of...):
Indochina; Indochinese peninsula (a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam)
Holonyms ("Lao People's Democratic Republic" is a member of...):
ASEAN; Association of Southeast Asian Nations (an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism)
