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    TURKMENISTAN

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991play

    Synonyms:

    Turkmen; Turkmenia; Turkmenistan; Turkomen

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting spatial position

    Instance hypernyms:

    country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

    Meronyms (parts of "Turkmenistan"):

    Ashkhabad; capital of Turkmenistan (the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan)

    Kara Kum; Qara Qum; Turkestan Desert (a desert in Turkmenistan to the south of the Aral Sea)

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

    Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

    Holonyms ("Turkmenistan" 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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