AZERBAIJAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Azerbaijan mean? 

• AZERBAIJAN (noun)
  The noun AZERBAIJAN has 1 sense:

1. a landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet

  Familiarity information: AZERBAIJAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• AZERBAIJAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in southwestern Asia; formerly an Asian soviet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Azerbaijan; Azerbaijani Republic; Azerbajdzhan; Azerbajdzhan Republic

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Azerbaijan"):

Baku; capital of Azerbaijan (a port city on the Caspian Sea that is the capital of Azerbaijan and an important center for oil production)

Domain member region:

Jayshullah (an indigenous Islamic terrorist group in Azerbaijan that attempted to bomb the United States embassy in 1999)

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

Transcaucasia (a geographical region to the south of the Caucasus Mountains and to the north of Turkey that comprises Georgia and Armenia and Azerbaijan)

Holonyms ("Azerbaijan" 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)

 Context examples 

Some cross political boundaries, such as the Caspian Sea, which is shared by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)