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Bolivia

//boʊˈlɪv.i.ə// name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A country in South America. Official name: Plurinational State of Bolivia. Capitals: La Paz and Sucre.
  2. 2
    A small town, the county seat of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.

    "Shaneequa Vereen, who grew up in the Brunswick County community of Bolivia, is currently a Public Affairs Officer and Live Mission Commentator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston, Texas. When you compare the numbers, it is quite a jump. When Shaneequa graduated from South Brunswick High School in 2009, the census put Bolivia’s population at around 150 people. Now she works at an agency that employs more than 17,000."

  3. 3
    Former name of Santa Cruz: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador. historical
  4. 4
    A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
Noun
  1. 1
    A card game similar to rummy and canasta. uncountable
  2. 2
    a form of canasta in which sequences can be melded wordnet
  3. 3
    A meld of seven wild cards in said card game. countable, uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish and New Latin 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”).

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