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UGANDA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Uganda"):
Buganda (a state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom)
Entebbe (a town in southern Uganda on Lake Victoria; site of an international airport (where in 1976 Israeli commandos rescued hostages held aboard a plane by Palestinian hijackers))
Jinja (a city in Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria)
Gulu (a city in northern Uganda)
Lake Edward (a lake in the Great Rift Valley between Congo and Uganda)
Nile; Nile River (the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization)
Meronyms (members of "Uganda"):
Ugandan (a native or inhabitant of Uganda)
Domain member region:
Lord's Resistance Army (a quasi-religious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army)
Holonyms ("Uganda" is a part of...):
East Africa (a geographical area in eastern Africa)
Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)
