RWANDA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Rwanda mean? 

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

1. a landlocked republic in central Africa; formerly a German colony

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• RWANDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in central Africa; formerly a German colony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Ruanda; Rwanda; Rwandese Republic

Instance hypernyms:

African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Rwanda"):

capital of Rwanda; Kigali (the national capital and largest city of Rwanda; located in central Rwanda)

Kivu; Lake Kivu (a lake in the mountains of central Africa between Congo and Rwanda)

Meronyms (members of "Rwanda"):

Hutu (a member of a Bantu people living in Rwanda and Burundi)

Tutsi; Watusi; Watutsi (a member of a Bantu speaking people living in Rwanda and Burundi)

Rwandan (a native or inhabitant of Rwanda)

Domain member region:

ALIR; Army for the Liberation of Rwanda; FAR; Former Armed Forces; Interahamwe (a terrorist organization that seeks to overthrow the government dominated by Tutsi and to institute Hutu control again)

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

East Africa (a geographical area in eastern Africa)

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

 Context examples 

MLN has been spreading in Kenya for the last six years, and has also been detected in Ethiopia, Rwanda and Tanzania.

(Researchers model ways to control deadly maize disease, SciDev.Net)