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A country in South America. Official name: Plurinational State of Bolivia. Capitals: La Paz and Sucre.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Synonyms: Upper Peru
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name
A small town, the county seat of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Former name of Santa Cruz: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
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name
A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
A card game similar to rummy and canasta.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
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noun
A meld of seven wild cards in said card game.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: card-games, games
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noun
a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: canasta, basket rummy, meld
noun
a landlocked republic in central South America; Simon Bolivar founded Bolivia in 1825 after winning independence from Spain
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Republic of Bolivia
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Broader terms: South American country, South American nation
History
Etymology tree Basque boluder. Proto-Basque *ibar Basque ibarder. Basque Bolibarbor. Spanish Bolívar Proto-Indo-European *-(i)yós Proto-Italic *-ijos Proto-Italic *-ios Old Latin -ios Latin -ius Latin -iader. Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-i-eh2 Proto-Hellenic *-íā Ancient Greek -ία (-ía) Ancient Greek -εία (-eía)der. Spanish -ia Spanish Boliviabor. English Bolivia Borrowed from Spanish Bolivia (“land of Bolivar”), from the South American revolutionary leader Simón Bolívar + -ia (forming placenames), from the Spanish surname Bolívar, from Basque Bolibar, a village in Álava, Basque Country, Spain, from Basque bolu (“windmill”) + ibar (“valley”).
Across languages
106 source translations are retained for this English entry.
