Skip to content
ARCHIEENGLISH
LearnPlayWordsRanking
  • Learn
  • Play
  • Words
  • Ranking
  • Mine
← Vocabulary

namibia

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

Namibia is a country of red desert dunes on Africa's southwest coast. Drive across Namibia.

The Namib is the oldest desert on earth and its dunes are among the tallest. Namibia is the second least crowded country in the world after Mongolia.

SVG by Vzb83~commonswiki et al. · Public domain

Definitions of namibia

  1. 1nounnamibiaCountry of red desert dunes on Africa's southwest coast.B2

    “Namibia has a coast of fog and shipwrecks.”

namibia is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. naq

    namib

  2. English

    Namibia

  3. English, today

    namibia

Namibia comes from Namib (from naq namib) + -ia.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in Countries & Flags

Practise this word