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KAZAKSTAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kazakstan mean? 

KAZAKSTAN (noun)
  The noun KAZAKSTAN 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 1991play

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


 Dictionary entry details 


KAZAKSTAN (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 "Kazakstan"):

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

Meronyms (members of "Kazakstan"):

Kazakhstani (a native or inhabitant of Kazakhstan)

Holonyms ("Kazakstan" 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 ("Kazakstan" 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)


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