English Explanatory Dictionary

South West Africa

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A former German colony (before World War I) and later a South African colony (from 1915 to 1990, illegally occupied after 1966 per United Nations stipulations) in Southern Africa; modern Namibia.

Word forms

South West Africa

Etymology

Calque of German Südwestafrika, the name of the German colony before it was lost during World War I and put under South African administration.

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