bolivia

«bolivia» in Mova's school dictionary: a country in the middle of South America with no coast… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

proper noun (Bolivia)

meaning for a pupil

Bolivia is a country in the middle of South America with no coast, high in the Andes Mountains (a name). tree →

sense in the lessons

In geography, Bolivia has Lake Titicaca (shared with Peru), the huge salt flat Salar de Uyuni, and La Paz, one of the highest capital cities in the world. Many people speak Spanish, Quechua and Aymara. Llamas live there.

examples

• Bolivia is in South America. tree →
• The Uyuni salt flat in Bolivia looks like a giant mirror after rain. tree →
• Bolivia has no coastline. tree →
• La Paz is very high up, so the air is thin. tree →
• People in Bolivia speak Spanish and other languages. tree →
• Llamas and alpacas live in Bolivia. tree →

note

Capital B. Adjective: Bolivian. Trap: Bolivia has two capitals — Sucre (official) and La Paz (government).

In the corpora

• The Spanish forced Indigenous people to mine the silver mountain of Potosí in Bolivia, and many thousands died there.
• European colonisers forced Indigenous people to mine silver in Peru and Bolivia, and enslaved Africans to dig gold in Brazil.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «bolivia» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.