Eritrea

Definition: Eritrea

Eritrea

Noun

1. A country north of Ethiopia on the Red Sea; achieved independence from Ethiopia in 1993.

Abbreviations & Acronyms: Eritrea

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
Entry	Source	Expression	Field
ER	Danish	Staten Eritrea	Geography
ER	English	State of Eritrea	Geography
ER	German	Staat Eritrea	Geography
ER	Spanish	Estado de Eritrea	Geography
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonym: Eritrea

Synonym: State of Eritrea (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Eritrea

English words defined with "Eritrea": Asmara, Asmera ♦ Eritrean ♦ Horn of Africa ♦ Somali peninsula, State of Eritrea. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Eritrea": nakfa. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Eritrea" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Dutch (Eritrea), German (Eritrea, Eritrea (er)), Tagalog (Eritrea).

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Modern Usage: Eritrea

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Eritrea (1990)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Eritrea

Domain	Title
References	Executive Report on Strategies in Eritrea,1999 edition (reference) A Strategic Profile of Eritrea,1999 edition (reference) Executive Report on Strategies in Eritrea, 2000 edition (reference) The 2001 Eritrea Economic and Product Market Databook (reference) (more reference examples)

Books	A Guide to Endemic Birds of Ethiopia and Eritrea (reference) Beyond Survival: The Economic Challenges of Agriculture & Development in Post-Independent Eritrea (reference) Eritrea Business Law Handbook [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	Eritrea Profile (reference) (more periodical examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Eritrea

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Non-Fiction Usage: Eritrea

Subject	Topic	Quote
Children	Ethiopia	The conflict with Eritrea resulted in numerous soldiers losing limbs, many from landmine explosions. (references)
Civil Liberties	Eritrea	Those who no longer had connections in Eritrea were placed temporarily in camps with IDP's before being settled among the general population. (references)
	Ethiopia	As a result of the conflict with Eritrea, numerous persons have been displaced internally; no accurate statistics were available by year's end. (references)
Economic History	Eritrea	U.S. investment in Eritrea is still small. (references)
	Eritrea	Franchising is a relatively new concept in Eritrea. (references)
	Eritrea	Eritrea takes stringent measures to combat corruption. (references)
Human Rights	Ethiopia	The outbreak of hostilities between Ethiopia and Eritrea adversely impacted the military justice system. (references)
	Ethiopia	In 1999, authorities began releasing Eritrean civilian detainees if they could obtain visas to a country other than Eritrea. (references)
	Ethiopia	In 2000 the Government repatriated 359 severely injured or ill POW's to Eritrea; 879 POW's were repatriated during the year. (references)
Political Economy	Eritrea	However, Eritrea remains a one-party state with no recognized opposition. (references)
	Eritrea	In the last few years, Eritrea has improved its relations with Yemen and Sudan. (references)
	Sudan	In November the Government prevented six NDA opposition members from attending a meeting in Eritrea. (references)
Trade	Eritrea	An independent local accounting firm audits the Central Bank of Eritrea. (references)
	Eritrea	Trade samples and machinery, not imported as merchandise, can enter Eritrea tax-free. (references)
	Eritrea	The Commercial Bank of Eritrea dominates the commercial banking system in the country. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Eritrea

"Eritrea" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Eritrea" is used about 88 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	100%	88	35,154

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Eritrea

Expression using "Eritrea": state of Eritrea. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Eritrea

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
eritrea	575	africa eritrea	4
asmara eritrea	111	conflict eritrea ethiopia	3
eritrea news	43	conflict eritrea ethiopia page	3
a map of eritrea	28	eritrea orsoline	3
eritrea keren	27	eritrea language	3
eritrea ethiopia	21	breaking eritrea news	3
eritrea hotel	18	eritrea travel	3
eritrea music	15	coin eritrea tallero	3
eritrea picture	9	eritrea newspaper	3
embassy eritrea	8	current eritrea event	2
eritrea flag	8	eritrea girl	2
eritrea photo	7	aden dhow djibouti eritrea somaliland traffic	2
capital eritrea	7	airline eritrea	2
eritrea history	7	eritrea news shaebia	2
dehai eritrea	4	africa east eritrea	2
aids eritrea	4	eritrea weather	2
eritrea miss	4	eritrea news radio	2
eritrea latest news	4	eritrea voice	2
dell eritrea foto	4	dekebat eritrea	2
democratic eritrea voice	4	eritrea information	2
		eritrea eritrean	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Eritrea

Language		Translations for "Eritrea"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		Eritrea (State of Eritrea), Staten Eritrea (State of Eritrea). (various references)

Dutch		Eritrea (State of Eritrea). (various references)

Esperanto		Eritreo. (various references)

Finnish		Eritrean valtio (State of Eritrea), Eritrea (State of Eritrea). (various references)

French		Erythrée. (various references)

German		Eritrea (Eritrea (er), State of Eritrea). (various references)

Greek		Κράτος της Ερυθρ?ίας (State of Eritrea), Ερυθραία (State of Eritrea). (various references)

Italian		Eritrea (State of Eritrea), ERI, ER, Stato d'Eritrea (State of Eritrea). (various references)

Pig Latin		eritreaay

Portuguese		Estado da Eritreia (State of Eritrea), Eritreia (State of Eritrea), Eritréia. (various references)

Spanish		Estado de Eritrea (State of Eritrea), Eritrea (State of Eritrea). (various references)

Swedish		Eritrea (State of Eritrea), Staten Eritrea (State of Eritrea). (various references)

Tagalog		Eritrea. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Eritrea

Misspellings
	"Eritrea" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Aristera, erythraea, Erythraei, Erythrean, Erythrina, Eurotra. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Eritrea

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: tearier.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-r-r-t"
	-1 letter: aerier, artier, irater, retear, retire, tearer, terrae.
	-2 letters: aerie, airer, arete, eater, irate, rater, retia, retie, tarre, terai, terra, trier.
	-3 letters: airt, rare, rate, rear, rete, rite, tare, tear, tier, tire, tree.
	-4 letters: air, ait, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, ere, err, eta, ire, rat, ree, rei, ret, ria, tae, tar, tea, tee.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-r-r-t"
	+1 letter: arteries, earthier, heartier, retailer, retainer, waterier.
	+2 letters: arteriole, breathier, careerist, certainer, dreariest, earthlier, earthrise, entrainer, firewater, irredenta, privateer, racketier, reiterate, reradiate, retailers, retainers, retearing, retrained, retrieval, streakier, streamier, ternaries, threadier, traceried, traceries, trailered, veratrine.
	+3 letters: advertiser, antimerger, arterioles, barretries, careerists, charioteer, craterlike, earthrises, entrainers, errantries, erythremia, featherier, firewaters, fraternize, freemartin, garnierite, generatrix, gravimeter, hereditary, intergrade, interlayer, interregna, interrenal, irredentas, irrelative, irrelevant, literature, marguerite, pretrained, privateers, radiometer, reaccredit, realtering, recreating, recreation, recreative, refractile, refractive, reiterated, reiterates, reparative, repatriate, reradiated, reradiates, restrained, restrainer, retailored, retractile, retreading, retreating, retrievals, sweetbriar, teaberries, tertiaries, tetrameric, tiebreaker, trailerite, travertine, treasuries, variometer, varletries, veratrines, veterinary, wiretapper.
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