UPPER VOLTA as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa
   • was formerly Upper Volta under French rule but gained independence in 1960
   Synonym(s)
   • Burkina Faso (what does Burkina Faso mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) Upper Volta is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
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   • land (what does land mean?)