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SIBERIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A vast Asian region of Russia; famous for long cold winters
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)
Meronyms (parts of "Siberia"):
Yenisei; Yenisei River; Yenisey; Yenisey River (a Russian river in Siberia; rises in mountains near the Mongolian border and flows generally northward into the Kara Sea)
Stony Tunguska; Tunguska (a river in Siberia that flows northwest to become a tributary of the Yenisei River)
Lower Tunguska; Tunguska (a river that arises to the north of Lake Baikal and flows north and west to the Yenisei River)
Sayan Mountains (a range of mountains in southern Siberia to the west of Lake Baikal; contain important mineral deposits)
Ob; Ob River (a major river of western Siberia; flows generally northward and westward to the Gulf of Ob and the Kara Sea)
Lena; Lena River (a Russian river in Siberia; flows northward into the Laptev Sea)
Irtish; Irtish River; Irtysh; Irtysh River (an Asian river that rises in the Altai Mountains in northern China and flows generally northwest to become a tributary of the Ob River)
Indigirka; Indigirka River (a river in far eastern Siberia that flows generally northward to the Arctic Ocean)
Bay of Ob; Gulf of Ob (an inlet of the Kara Sea in western Siberia)
Baikal; Baykal; Lake Baikal; Lake Baykal (the largest freshwater lake in Asia or Europe and the deepest lake in the world)
Angara; Angara River; Tunguska; Upper Tunguska (a river in southeastern Siberia that flows northwest from Lake Baikal to become a tributary of the Yenisei River)
Taimyr Peninsula; Taymyr Peninsula (a peninsula in northern Siberia)
Kamchatka Peninsula (a peninsula in eastern Siberia; between Bering Sea and Sea of Okhotsk)
Khabarovsk (an administrative territory in Russia on the eastern coast of Siberia)
Meronyms (members of "Siberia"):
Nganasan (a member of the Samoyedic people living on the Taimyr Peninsula in Siberia)
Ostyak-Samoyed; Selkup (one of the people of mixed Ostyak and Samoyed origin in Siberia)
Yeniseian (a member of one of the groups living in the Yenisei river valley in western Siberia)
Siberian (a native or inhabitant of Siberia)
Holonyms ("Siberia" is a part of...):
Russia; Russian Federation (a federation in northeastern Europe and northern Asia; formerly Soviet Russia; since 1991 an independent state)
Derivation:
Siberian (of or relating to or characteristic of Siberia or the Siberians)
Context examples:
They were those which treat of the haunts of sea-fowl; of the solitary rocks and promontories by them only inhabited; of the coast of Norway, studded with isles from its southern extremity, the Lindeness, or Naze, to the North Cape—Nor could I pass unnoticed the suggestion of the bleak shores of Lapland, Siberia, Spitzbergen, Nova Zembla, Iceland, Greenland, with the vast sweep of the Arctic Zone, and those forlorn regions of dreary space,—that reservoir of frost and snow, where firm fields of ice, the accumulation of centuries of winters, glazed in Alpine heights above heights, surround the pole, and concentre the multiplied rigours of extreme cold.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
An’ there’s Smoke, the black little devil—didn’t the Roosians have him for three years in the salt mines of Siberia, for poachin’ on Copper Island, which is a Roosian preserve?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Some of us found our way to the gallows, and some to Siberia.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
These findings have changed a lot of what we thought we knew about the population history of northeastern Siberia but also what we know about the history of human migration as a whole.
(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)
The single fossilized bone fragment, about two centimetres (less than an inch) long, which researchers said was from a girl at least 13 years old, was found in 2012 in the Denisova Cave in Siberia.
(Fossil genome shows hybrid of two extinct species of human, Wikinews)
As roughly 30 percent of global permafrost carbon is concentrated within 7 percent of the permafrost region in Alaska, Canada and Siberia, this study's findings also renew scientific interest in how carbon uptake by thermokarst lakes offsets greenhouse gas emissions.
(Certain Arctic lakes store more greenhouse gases than they release, NSF)
In this he failed, but Alexis was sent a convict to Siberia, where now, at this moment, he works in a salt mine.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Two children’s milk teeth buried deep in a remote archaeological site in north eastern Siberia have revealed a previously unknown group of people lived there during the last Ice Age.
(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)
The finding was part of a wider study which also discovered 10,000-year-old human remains in another site in Siberia are genetically related to Native Americans – the first time such close genetic links have been discovered outside of the US.
(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)
The complex population dynamics during this period and genetic comparisons to other people groups, both ancient and recent, are documented as part of the wider study which analysed 34 samples of human genomes found in ancient archaeological sites across northern Siberia and central Russia.
(DNA from 31,000-year-old milk teeth leads to discovery of new group of ancient Siberians, University of Cambridge)
