LOW COUNTRIES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Low Countries mean? 

• LOW COUNTRIES (noun)
  The noun LOW COUNTRIES has 1 sense:

1. the lowland region of western Europe on the North Sea: Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands

  Familiarity information: LOW COUNTRIES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOW COUNTRIES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The lowland region of western Europe on the North Sea: Belgium and Luxembourg and the Netherlands

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Instance hypernyms:

geographic area; geographic region; geographical area; geographical region (a demarcated area of the Earth)

Holonyms ("Low Countries" is a part of...):

Europe (the 2nd smallest continent (actually a vast peninsula of Eurasia); the British use 'Europe' to refer to all of the continent except the British Isles)