ERITREA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eritrea mean? 

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

1. an African country to the north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Ethiopia in 1993

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• ERITREA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An African country to the north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Ethiopia in 1993

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Eritrea; State of Eritrea

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Eritrea"):

Asmara; Asmera (the capital of Eritrea)

Massawa (a port town in Eritrea on an inlet of the Red Sea)

Meronyms (members of "Eritrea"):

Eritrean (a native or inhabitant of Eritrea)

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

Horn of Africa; Somali peninsula (a peninsula of northeastern Africa (the easternmost part of Africa) comprising Somalia and Djibouti and Eritrea and parts of Ethiopia)

Derivation:

Eritrean (of or relating to or characteristic of Eritrea or its people)

 Context examples 

A country in eastern Africa, bordering the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, between Eritrea and Somalia.

(Djibouti, NCI Thesaurus)