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GOBI
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Gobi mean?
• GOBI (noun)
The noun GOBI has 1 sense:
1. a desert in central China
Familiarity information: GOBI used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A desert in central China
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Synonyms:
Gobi; Gobi Desert
Instance hypernyms:
desert (arid land with little or no vegetation)
Holonyms ("Gobi" is a part of...):
Cathay; China; Communist China; mainland China; People's Republic of China; PRC; Red China (a communist nation that covers a vast territory in eastern Asia; the most populous country in the world)
Mongolia; Mongolian People's Republic; Outer Mongolia (a landlocked socialist republic in central Asia)
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