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FREETOWN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Freetown mean?
• FREETOWN (noun)
The noun FREETOWN has 1 sense:
1. port city and the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone
Familiarity information: FREETOWN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Port city and the capital and largest city of Sierra Leone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
capital of Sierra Leone; Freetown
Instance hypernyms:
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
national capital (the capital city of a nation)
Holonyms ("Freetown" is a part of...):
Republic of Sierra Leone; Sierra Leone (a republic in West Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1961)
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