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BELORUSSIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Belorussia mean? 

BELORUSSIA (noun)
  The noun BELORUSSIA has 1 sense:

1. a landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European sovietplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


BELORUSSIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in eastern Europe; formerly a European soviet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

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

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Belorussia"):

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 "Belorussia"):

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

Holonyms ("Belorussia" 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 ("Belorussia" 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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