soudan

English Thesaurus

1. a region of northern Africa to the south of the Sahara and Libyan deserts; extends from the Atlantic to the Red Sea (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region,
definition	:	a demarcated area of the Earth (noun.location)

part meronym	:	africa,
definition	:	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 (noun.object)

domain member region	:	battle of omdurman, omdurman,
definition	:	a battle (1898) in which an English and Egyptian army under Kitchener defeated the Sudanese (noun.act)

2. a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Egypt and the United Kingdom in 1956 (noun.location)

instance hypernym	:	african country, african nation,
definition	:	any one of the countries occupying the African continent (noun.location)

part holonym	:	darfur,
definition	:	an impoverished region of western Sudan (noun.location)

part holonym	:	kordofan,
definition	:	a mountainous province of central Sudan (noun.location)

part holonym	:	capital of sudan, khartoum,
definition	:	the capital of Sudan located at the confluence of the Blue Nile and White Nile (noun.location)

part holonym	:	nyala,
definition	:	city in Sudan (noun.location)

part holonym	:	port sudan,
definition	:	port city in Sudan on the Red Sea (noun.location)

part holonym	:	omdurman,
definition	:	a city of Sudan; located in the central Sudan on the White Nile opposite Khartoum (noun.location)

part holonym	:	libyan desert,
definition	:	the northeastern part of the Sahara Desert in Libya and Egypt and Sudan (noun.location)

part holonym	:	nubian desert,
definition	:	an arid sandstone plateau in northeastern Sudan between the Nile and the Red Sea (noun.location)

part holonym	:	nile, nile river,
definition	:	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 (noun.object)

part meronym	:	africa,
definition	:	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 (noun.object)

member holonym	:	sudanese,
definition	:	a native or inhabitant of Sudan (noun.person)

member meronym	:	arab league,
definition	:	an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation (noun.group)