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GULF OF GUINEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gulf of Guinea mean? 

GULF OF GUINEA (noun)
  The noun GULF OF GUINEA has 1 sense:

1. a gulf off the southwest coast of Africaplay

  Familiarity information: GULF OF GUINEA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


GULF OF GUINEA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A gulf off the southwest coast of Africa

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Instance hypernyms:

gulf (an arm of a sea or ocean partly enclosed by land; larger than a bay)

Meronyms (parts of "Gulf of Guinea"):

Bioko (an island in the Gulf of Guinea that is part of Equatorial Guinea)

Bight of Benin (a broad indentation of the Gulf of Guinea in western Africa)

Holonyms ("Gulf of Guinea" is a part of...):

Atlantic; Atlantic Ocean (the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east)


 Context examples 


A country in western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Cote d'Ivoire and Togo.

(Ghana, NCI Thesaurus)

Areas where benefits from agricultural conversion are higher than cost of deforestation were identified as the Atlantic Forest (mostly coastal Brazil), the Gulf of Guinea and Thailand.

(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)

A country in Western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Cote d'Ivoire and Togo.

(Ghana, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in western Africa, bordering the Gulf of Guinea, between Cameroon and Gabon; composed of a mainland portion and five inhabited islands.

(Equatorial Guinea, NCI Thesaurus)



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