| Definition of 'ETHIOPIA' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) Ethiopia, Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Yaltopya, Abyssinia
Ethiopia is a republic in northeastern Africa on the Red Sea; formerly called Abyssinia
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia |
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1. ETHIOPIA
a term loosely used in ancient times to indicate the territory inhabited by black or dark-coloured people; latterly applied to an undefined tract of land stretching S. of Egypt to the Gulf of Aden, which constituted the kingdom of the Ethiopians, a people of Semitic origin and speaking a Semitic language called Ge'ez, who were successively conquered by the Egyptians, Persians, and Romans; are known in the Bible; their first king is supposed to have been Menilehek, son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba; their literature consists mostly of translations and collections of saws and riddles; the language is no longer spoken.
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U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. ETHIOPIA
An independent state in eastern Africa. Ethiopia is located in the Horn of Africa and is bordered on the north and northeast by Eritrea, on the east by Djibouti and Somalia, on the south by Kenya, and on the west and southwest by Sudan. Its capital is Addis Ababa.
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