RAND

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rand mean? 

• RAND (noun)
  The noun RAND has 3 senses:

1. the basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents

2. United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982)

3. a rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese

  Familiarity information: RAND used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• RAND (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The basic unit of money in South Africa; equal to 100 cents

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Hypernyms ("rand" is a kind of...):

South African monetary unit (monetary unit in South Africa)

Meronyms (parts of "rand"):

cent (a fractional monetary unit of several countries)

Sense 2

Meaning:

United States writer (born in Russia) noted for her polemical novels and political conservativism (1905-1982)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Ayn Rand; Rand

Instance hypernyms:

author; writer (writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay))

Sense 3

Meaning:

A rocky region in the southern Transvaal in northeastern South Africa; contains rich gold deposits and coal and manganese

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Rand; Reef; Witwatersrand

Instance hypernyms:

part; region (the extended spatial location of something)

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

Transvaal (a province of northeastern South Africa originally inhabited by Africans who spoke Bantu; colonized by the Boers)