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DOMINICAN REPUBLIC

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Dominican Republic mean? 

DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (noun)
  The noun DOMINICAN REPUBLIC has 1 sense:

1. a republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniolaplay

  Familiarity information: DOMINICAN REPUBLIC used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


DOMINICAN REPUBLIC (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in the West Indies; located on the eastern two-thirds of the island of Hispaniola

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Dominican Republic"):

capital of the Dominican Republic; Ciudad Trujillo; Santo Domingo (the capital and largest city of the Dominican Republic)

Santiago; Santiago de los Caballeros (city in the northern Dominican Republic)

Meronyms (members of "Dominican Republic"):

Dominican (a native or inhabitant of the Dominican Republic)

Holonyms ("Dominican Republic" is a part of...):

Caribbean (region including the Caribbean Islands)

Haiti; Hayti; Hispaniola (an island in the West Indies)

Holonyms ("Dominican Republic" is a member of...):

OAS; Organization of American States (an association including most countries in the western hemisphere; created in 1948 to promote military and economic and social and cultural cooperation)


 Context examples 


Denotes the inhabitants of the Dominican Republic, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Dominican, NCI Thesaurus)



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