TURKMENIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Turkmenia mean? 

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

1. a republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TURKMENIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in Asia to the east of the Caspian Sea and to the south of Kazakhstan and to the north of Iran; an Asian soviet from 1925 to 1991

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Turkmen; Turkmenia; Turkmenistan; Turkomen

Instance hypernyms:

country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)

Meronyms (parts of "Turkmenia"):

Ashkhabad; capital of Turkmenistan (the capital and largest city of Turkmenistan)

Kara Kum; Qara Qum; Turkestan Desert (a desert in Turkmenistan to the south of the Aral Sea)

Holonyms ("Turkmenia" 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 ("Turkmenia" 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)