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bolivia

/boʊˈlɪvi.ə/

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What does bolivia mean?

noun

  1. A card game similar to rummy and canasta.
  2. A meld of seven wild cards in said card game.

proper noun

  1. A country in South America. Official name: Plurinational State of Bolivia. Capitals: La Paz and Sucre.
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proper noun

  1. A small town, the county seat of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.
  2. A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  3. (historical) Former name of Santa Cruz: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.

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IPA pronunciation

/boʊˈlɪvi.ə/

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Other dictionary pronunciations

/bəˈlɪvi.ə/
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These people had come originally from the Pacific Coast, I cannot recall whether from Bolivia or Ecuador.
Frederic, Lord HamiltonHere, There and EverywhereProject Gutenberg ebook #6368
It is also capital that the whole of Bolivia will be described.
Charles DarwinMore Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 A Record of His Work in a Series of Hitherto Unpublished LettersProject Gutenberg ebook #2739
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Another offers land in Bolivia for two dollars an acre.
Upton SinclairThe Profits of Religion: An Essay in Economic InterpretationProject Gutenberg ebook #1558
Nevertheless, Bolivia continues to be one of the poorest countries in Latin America, and it remains vulnerable to price fluctuations for its limited exports--mainly minerals and natural gas.
United States. Central Intelligence AgencyThe 1990 CIA World FactbookProject Gutenberg ebook #14
Take for example the Aymaras, the most ancient race of Bolivia and Callao; they laid their dead sometimes beneath megalithic monuments (Fig.
Jean-François-Albert du Pouget, marquis de NadaillacManners and Monuments of Prehistoric PeoplesTranslated by N. D'AnversProject Gutenberg ebook #3309