KAMPUCHEA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kampuchea mean? 

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

1. a nation in southeastern Asia; was part of Indochina under French rule until 1946

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KAMPUCHEA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A nation in southeastern Asia; was part of Indochina under French rule until 1946

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Cambodia; Kampuchea; Kingdom of Cambodia

Instance hypernyms:

Asian country; Asian nation (any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Kampuchea"):

Cambodian capital; Phnom Penh; Pnom Penh (the capital and largest city of Kampuchea)

Mekong; Mekong River (an Asian river; flows through a large delta in southern Vietnam into the South China Sea)

Meronyms (members of "Kampuchea"):

Cambodian; Kampuchean (a native or inhabitant of Cambodia)

Domain member region:

Communist Party of Kampuchea; Khmer Rouge; KR; Party of Democratic Kampuchea (a communist organization formed in Cambodia in 1970; became a terrorist organization in 1975 when it captured Phnom Penh and created a government that killed an estimated three million people; was defeated by Vietnamese troops but remained active until 1999)

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

Indochina; Indochinese peninsula (a peninsula of southeastern Asia that includes Myanmar and Cambodia and Laos and Malaysia and Thailand and Vietnam)

Holonyms ("Kampuchea" is a member of...):

ASEAN; Association of Southeast Asian Nations (an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism)

Derivation:

Kampuchean (of or relating to or characteristic of Cambodia or its people or language)

 Context examples 

Denotes the inhabitants of Cambodia (formerly Kampuchea), a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.

(Cambodian, NCI Thesaurus)