British Somaliland

British Somaliland

noun
a former British protectorate in E Africa, on the Gulf of Aden: now the N part of Somalia.
Former official name, Somaliland Protectorate.
Compare Somalia.
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British Somaliland is always a great word to know.
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the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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British Somaliland
 
n
a former British protectorate (1884--1960) in E Africa, on the Gulf of Aden: united with Italian Somaliland in 1960 to form Somalia (or the Somali Republic); in 1991 the self-styled republic of Somaliland, covering the same area as the former British Somaliland, declared itself independent and continues to function largely as a separate entity, though without international recognition

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