ABKHAZ

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Abkhaz mean? 

• ABKHAZ (noun)
  The noun ABKHAZ has 3 senses:

1. a member of the Circassian people who live to the east of the Black Sea

2. an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability

3. Circassian people living east of the Black Sea

  Familiarity information: ABKHAZ used as a noun is uncommon.

• ABKHAZ (adjective)
  The adjective ABKHAZ has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to Abkazia or its people or their language

  Familiarity information: ABKHAZ used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABKHAZ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the Circassian people who live to the east of the Black Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Abkhas; Abkhasian; Abkhaz; Abkhazian

Hypernyms ("Abkhaz" is a kind of...):

Circassian (a member of the Sunni Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia)

Holonyms ("Abkhaz" is a member of...):

Abkhaz; Abkhazia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability)

Sense 2

Meaning:

An autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Abkhaz; Abkhazia

Instance hypernyms:

province; state (the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation)

Meronyms (members of "Abkhaz"):

Abkhas; Abkhasian; Abkhaz; Abkhazian (a member of the Circassian people who live to the east of the Black Sea)

Domain member region:

Abkhas; Abkhaz (Circassian people living east of the Black Sea)

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

Georgia; Sakartvelo (a republic in Asia Minor on the Black Sea separated from Russia by the Caucasus mountains; formerly an Asian soviet but became independent in 1991)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Circassian people living east of the Black Sea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Abkhas; Abkhaz

Instance hypernyms:

Circassian (a mostly Sunni Muslim community living in northwestern Caucasia)

Domain region:

Abkhaz; Abkhazia (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability)

• ABKHAZ (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to Abkazia or its people or their language

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

Abkhaz; Abkhazian

Pertainym:

Abkhaz (an autonomous province of Georgia on the Black Sea; a strong independence movement has resulted in much instability)