UGANDA

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

IPA (US):

 Dictionary entry overview: What does Uganda mean? 

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

1. a landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• UGANDA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A landlocked republic in eastern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1962

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Republic of Uganda; Uganda

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Uganda"):

Buganda (a state of Uganda and site of a former Bantu kingdom)

Entebbe (a town in southern Uganda on Lake Victoria; site of an international airport (where in 1976 Israeli commandos rescued hostages held aboard a plane by Palestinian hijackers))

Jinja (a city in Uganda on the north shore of Lake Victoria)

Gulu (a city in northern Uganda)

Lake Edward (a lake in the Great Rift Valley between Congo and Uganda)

Nile; Nile River (the world's longest river (4150 miles); flows northward through eastern Africa into the Mediterranean; the Nile River valley in Egypt was the site of the world's first great civilization)

Meronyms (members of "Uganda"):

Ugandan (a native or inhabitant of Uganda)

Domain member region:

Lord's Resistance Army (a quasi-religious rebel group in Uganda that terrorized and raped women and kidnapped children who were forced to serve in the army)

Holonyms ("Uganda" 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 

Researchers succeeded to develop bananas high in pro-vitamin A in Uganda.

(Golden Bananas High in Pro-Vitamin A Developed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Why, I've only been back three weeks from Uganda, and taken a place in Scotland, and signed the lease and all.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The team enrolled 400 infants in eastern Uganda.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)

Unfortunately, increasing nutrient concentrations and the consequences of eutrophication have been recorded for most of the ancient lakes, including Victoria (on the border of Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda), Baikal (Russia), Valencia (Venezuela), Titicaca (Peru) and Ohrid (Macedonia).

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

Lord, how some of that Somaliland-Uganda crowd would turn a beautiful pea-green if they saw it!

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The research backed with close to $10 million from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, ultimately aims to improve the nutritional content of bananas in Uganda, where the fruit is the major staple food in their daily diet.

(Golden Bananas High in Pro-Vitamin A Developed, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A team at the University of California, San Francisco, led by Dr. Grant Dorsey and colleagues in Kampala, Uganda, compared drugs to prevent infant malaria in areas with a high risk year round and high rates of drug resistance.

(Drug Prevents Malaria in High-Risk Region, NIH)