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Bolivia¹

  • /bəˈlɪvi.ə/ Australia, UK
  • /bəˈlɪvɪjə/ British, Southern, Standard
  • /boʊˈlɪvi.ə/ US
  • /bəˈlɪvi.ə/ US
  • /bəˈlɪve.ə/ Scotland
  • /bəˈləvi.ə/ New Zealand
  • /boˈliv.jɐ/ Philippines

Rhymes with -ɪviə

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Bolivia (“land of Bolivar”), from the South American revolutionary leader Simón Bolívar + -ia (forming placenames), from the Spanish surname Bolívar, from Basque Bolibar, a village in Álava, Basque Country, Spain, from Basque bolu (“windmill”) + ibar (“valley”).

proper noun

  1. A country in South America. Official name: Plurinational State of Bolivia. Capitals: La Paz and Sucre.

    Similar: Upper Peru

  2. A small town, the county seat of Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. Shaneequa Vereen, who grew up in the Brunswick County community of Bolivia, is currently a Public Affairs Officer and Live Mission Commentator for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration in Houston, Texas. When you compare the numbers, it is quite a jump. When Shaneequa graduated from Sout
  3. historical Former name of Santa Cruz: an island of Galapagos, Ecuador.
  4. A locality in the Tenterfield council area, north eastern New South Wales, Australia.

bolivia²

noun bolivias

  1. uncountable A card game similar to rummy and canasta.
  2. countable, uncountable A meld of seven wild cards in said card game.

Thesaurus

Closest in meaning: paraguay, ecuador, nicaragua, uruguay, chile, bolivian, uganda, benin, bahrain, greece, antofagasta, country, olivia, bolivians, bol, bo

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name country in South America

EspañolBolivia
한국어볼리비아 Bollibia
日本語ボリビア Boribia
中文玻利維亞 /玻利维亚 Bōlìwéiyà
हिन्दीबोलीविया bolīviyā
KiswahiliBolivia
PortuguêsBolívia
FrançaisBolivie
DeutschBolivien
ItalianoBolivia
ΕλληνικάΒολιβία Volivía
RomânăBolivia
РусскийБоли́вия Bolívija
Tiếng ViệtBô-li-vi-a
العربيةبُولِيفِيَا būlīfiyā
עבריתבּוֹלִיבְיָה bolívya

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@misc{bolivia_2026,
  title = {bolivia},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bolivia},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}