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kazakhstan

UK/ˌkæzəkˈstɑːn/US/ˈkɑzəkˌstæn/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechmostly written

Kazakhstan is the enormous steppe country of Central Asia. Fly across Kazakhstan.

It is the largest landlocked country in the world and bigger than western Europe. Every crewed space flight from Russia still launches from Baikonur in Kazakhstan.

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Definitions of kazakhstan

  1. 1nounkazakhstanThe enormous steppe country of Central Asia.B2

    “Kazakhstan is mostly flat grassland and very thinly peopled.”

kazakhstan is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. Russian

    Казахста́н

  2. English

    Kazakhstan

  3. English, today

    kazakhstan

Kazakhstan Russian Казахста́н. Analyzable as Kazakh + -stan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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