KAZAKHSTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kazakhstan mean? 

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

1. a landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• KAZAKHSTAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic to the south of Russia and to the northeast of the Caspian Sea; the original Turkic-speaking inhabitants were overrun by Mongols in the 13th century; an Asian soviet from 1936 to 1991

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Kazak; Kazakh; Kazakhstan; Kazakstan; Republic of Kazakhstan

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Kazakhstan"):

Alma-Ata; Almaty (the largest city in Kazakhstan and the capital until 1998)

Meronyms (members of "Kazakhstan"):

Kazakhstani (a native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan)

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

Asia (the largest continent with 60% of the earth's population; it is joined to Europe on the west to form Eurasia; it is the site of some of the world's earliest civilizations)

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

CIS; Commonwealth of Independent States (an alliance made up of states that had been Soviet Socialist Republics in the Soviet Union prior to its dissolution in Dec 1991)

 Context examples 

A country in central Asia, between southern Kazakhstan and western China.

(Kyrgyzstan, NCI Thesaurus)

Some cross political boundaries, such as the Caspian Sea, which is shared by Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran and Azerbaijan.

(Ancient lakes: eyes into the past, and the future, National Science Foundation)