GHANA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Ghana mean? 

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

1. a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• GHANA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Ghana; Gold Coast; Republic of Ghana

Context example:

Ghana was colonized as the Gold Coast by the British

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Ghana"):

Lake Volta (the Volta river in southeastern has been dammed to create one of the world's largest man-made lakes)

Accra; capital of Ghana (the capital and largest city of Ghana with a deep-water port)

Kumasi (a city in southern Ghana)

Tamale (a city in northern Ghana)

Volta (a river in Ghana that flows south to the Bight of Benin)

Meronyms (members of "Ghana"):

Ewe (a member of a people living in southern Benin and Togo and southeastern Ghana)

Ghanian (a native or inhabitant of Ghana)

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

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

Derivation:

Ghanaian; Ghanian (of or relating to or characteristic of Ghana or its people or language)

 Context examples 

Each is holding a sock worn by a young child in Ghana for one night only.

(The Dog's Nose Knows Malaria, Kevin Enochs/VOA)

A country in Western Africa, north of Ghana.

(Burkina Faso, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in western Africa, between Mali and Ghana.

(Burkina Faso, NCI Thesaurus)