Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

democratic republic of afghanistan

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.99 in modern English

Syllables
demo-crat-ic re-pub-lic of afghanistan
IPA
54
Scrabble Score
31
Letters
5
Syllables
18
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

Former official name of Afghanistan: a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia; used from 1978 to 1987 when it was a one party Marxist-Leninist state; officially known as the Republic of Afghanistan from 1987 to 1992, but under the same government.

Inflected Forms

the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (canonical)

Synonyms

Afghan Democratic Republic DRA Republic of Afghanistan Soviet Afghanistan

Questions

What does democratic republic of afghanistan mean?
Former official name of Afghanistan: a landlocked country between Central Asia and South Asia; used from 1978 to 1987 when it was a one party Marxist-Leninist state; officially known as the Republic of Afghanistan from 1987 to 1992, but under the same government.

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