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    WHITE RUSSIA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European sovietplay

    Synonyms:

    Belarus; Belorussia; Byelarus; Byelorussia; Republic of Belarus; White Russia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

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

    Meronyms (parts of "White Russia"):

    capital of Belarus; Minsk (the capital of Belarus and of the Commonwealth of Independent States)

    Gomel; Homel; Homyel (industrial city of Belarus to the southeast of Minsk)

    Pinsk (a city of southwestern Belarus)

    Lubavitch (a town in Belarus that was the center of the Chabad movement for a brief period during the 19th century)

    Dnieper; Dnieper River (a river that rises in Russia near Smolensk and flowing south through Belarus and Ukraine to empty into the Black Sea)

    Meronyms (members of "White Russia"):

    Belorussian; Byelorussian; White Russian (a native or inhabitant of Byelorussia)

    Holonyms ("White Russia" is a part of...):

    Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)

    Holonyms ("White Russia" is a member of...):

    CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)

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