Lesotho

Definition: Lesotho

Lesotho

Noun

1. A landlocked constitutional monarchy in southern Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1966.

Synonyms: Lesotho

Synonyms: Basutoland (n), Kingdom of Lesotho (n). (additional references)

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Specialty Definition: Lesotho

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Basutoland was renamed the Kingdom of Lesotho upon independence from the United Kingdom on October 4 1966. Constitutional government was restored in 1993 after 23 years of authoritanism, which include seven years of military rule.

Small, landlocked, and mountainous, Lesotho's only important natural resource is water. Its economy is based on subsistence agriculture, livestock, and remittances from miners employed in South Africa. The number of such mine workers has declined steadily over the past several years. In 1996 their remittances added about 33% to GDP compared with the addition of roughly 67% in 1990. A small manufacturing base depends largely on farm products which support the milling, canning, leather, and jute industries. Agricultural products are exported primarily to South Africa. Proceeds from membership in a common customs union with South Africa form the majority of government revenue. Although drought has decreased agricultural activity over the past few years, completion of a major hydropower facility in January 1998 now permits the sale of water to South Africa, generating royalties that will be an important source of income for Lesotho. The pace of parastatal privatization has increased in recent years. Civil disorder in September 1998 destroyed 80% of the commercial infrastructure in Maseru and two other major towns. Most firms were not covered by insurance, and the rebuilding of small and medium business has been a significant challenge in terms of both economic growth and employment levels. Output dropped 10% in 1998 and recovered slowly in 1999.

History of Lesotho
Geography of Lesotho
Demographics of Lesotho
Politics of Lesotho
Economy of Lesotho
Communications in Lesotho
Transportation in Lesotho
Military of Lesotho
Foreign relations of Lesotho
Culture of Lesotho (Music of Lesotho)

Originally from the CIA World Factbook 2000 and the U.S. Department of State website.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Lesotho."

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Crosswords: Lesotho

English words defined with "Lesotho": Basotho, Basuto ♦ capital of Lesotho ♦ Kingdom of Lesotho ♦ Lesotho monetary unit, loti ♦ Maseru ♦ Sesotho, Sotho. (references)

Specialty definitions using "Lesotho": ls. (references)

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

Dutch (Lesotho), German (Lesotho, Lesotho (ls)), Hungarian (Lesotho), Swedish (Lesotho).

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Modern Usage: Lesotho

Domain

Usage

Movie/TV Titles

Goldwindows: Women in Lesotho (1991)

Lessons from Lesotho (1983)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Lesotho

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

Books	A South African Kingdom : The Pursuit of Security in Nineteenth-Century Lesotho (reference) Cadogan South Africa: Swaziland & Lesotho (Cadogan Guides) (reference) D&B Export Guide: Lesotho [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference) Executive Report on Strategies in Lesotho, 2000 edition [DOWNLOAD: ADOBE READER] (reference) Lesotho (World Bibliographical Series, Vol 3) (reference) (more book examples)

Theater & Movies	South Africa & Lesotho (reference) (more DVD examples; more video examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Lesotho

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Non-Fiction Usage: Lesotho

Subject	Topic	Quote
Business		South African franchisors have made inroads into countries such as Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Botswana, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Lesotho and Swaziland. (references)
		TPO - Lesotho Telecommunications Corporation (LTC) is the operator and regulator and has full autonomy of the basic services, and basic infrastructure. (references)
		The national TPO, Lesotho Telecommunications Corporation (LTC) is the operator and regulator and has full autonomy of the basic services, and basic infrastructure. (references)
Civil Liberties	Lesotho	There are several independent newspapers--including one controlled by the Roman Catholic Church, one controlled by the Lesotho Evangelical Church, and four English-language weeklies--that routinely criticized the Government. (references)
Economic History	South Africa	The South African Rand is legal tender in Lesotho. (references)
	Lesotho	In 1996, the United States closed its bilateral aid program in Lesotho. (references)
Political Economy	Lesotho	Lesotho is a constitutional monarchy with King Letsie III as Head of State. (references)
	Lesotho	Prime Minister Pakalitha Mosisili, the leader of the Lesotho Congress for Democracy (LCD) party, took office in June 1998 and is the Head of Government. (references)
	Lesotho	Lesotho, which has a population of approximately 2.15 million, is a landlocked country surrounded by South Africa and almost entirely dependent on its sole neighbor for access to the outside world. (references)
Trade	Mauritius	Mauritius joined SADC in 1995. Members include South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, Angola, Mozambique, Malawi, Zimbabwe, Tanzania, Zambia, Congo and Seychelles. (references)
	South Africa	There is free exchange of trade between South Africa and the other four countries (Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) comprising the Southern African Customs Union (SACU). (references)
	Botswana	Historically, the most important trade agreement has been the SACU Agreement, which provides for duty-free trade with Namibia, Lesotho, Swaziland and South Africa coupled with a relatively high degree of protection against imports from the rest of the world. (references)
Worker Rights	South Africa	In Africa women are trafficked from neighboring countries including Angola, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Swaziland, Zambia, Cameroon, Malawi, and Rwanda. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Lesotho

"Lesotho" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Lesotho" is used about 144 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%	144	26,339

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

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Expressions: Lesotho

Expressions using "Lesotho": capital of Lesotho ♦ kingdom of Lesotho ♦ Lesotho monetary unit. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Lesotho

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
lesotho	165	lesotho tourism	4
maseru lesotho	24	africa lesotho	3
lesotho hotel	23	flag of lesotho	3
lesotho map	14	lesotho sun hotel	3
lesotho teyateyaneng	13	breaking lesotho news	3
lesotho morija	9	latest lesotho news	3
lesotho news	7	lesotho radio	3
lesotho government	6	embassy lesotho	3
lesotho university	5	history lesotho	3
highland lesotho project water	5	lesotho photo	2
lesotho national university	5	estate lesotho liberia property real	2
lesotho weather	4	lahmeyer lesotho	2
capital lesotho	4	football lesotho	2
lesotho picture	4	latitude lesotho longitude	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Lesotho

Language		Translations for "Lesotho"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Lesoto. (various references)

Bulgarian		�"ържава �' Африка. (various references)

Chinese		莱索托. (various references)

Danish		Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho, The Kingdom of Lesotho), kongeriget Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho, The Kingdom of Lesotho). (various references)

Dutch		Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho, The Kingdom of Lesotho). (various references)

Esperanto		Lesoto. (various references)

Finnish		Lesothon kuningaskunta (Kingdom of Lesotho), Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho). (various references)

French		Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho, The Kingdom of Lesotho), Le Royaume du Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho, The Kingdom of Lesotho), le Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho), Royaume du Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho). (various references)

German		Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho, Lesotho (ls), The Kingdom of Lesotho). (various references)

Greek		Λεσόθο (Kingdom of Lesotho), �'ασίλειο του Λεσόθο (Kingdom of Lesotho). (various references)

Hungarian		Lesotho. (various references)

Italian		Lesoto, Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho, The Kingdom of Lesotho), Regno di Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho), Regno del Lesotho (The Kingdom of Lesotho). (various references)

Korean		� �소� . (various references)

Pig Latin		esotholay

Portuguese		Lesoto (Kingdom of Lesotho, less), Violação De Direito, Reino do Lesoto (Kingdom of Lesotho). (various references)

Russian		Лесото. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		lesoto. (various references)

Spanish		Lesoto (Kingdom of Lesotho). (various references)

Swazi		é-Lusûtfu. (various references)

Swedish		Lesotho (Kingdom of Lesotho). (various references)

Ukranian		Лесото. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Lesotho

Misspellings
	"Lesotho" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Lastovo, Lerotholi, leseth, Luessonhop. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Lesotho

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-h-l-o-o-s-t"
	-1 letter: helots, hostel, hotels, soothe, tholes, tholos.
	-2 letters: ethos, helos, helot, holes, holts, hoots, hosel, hotel, loose, loots, lotos, oleos, sheol, shool, shoot, shote, sloth, sooth, sotol, stole, stool, telos, thole, those, toles, tools.
	-3 letters: eths, helo, hest, hets, hoes, hole, hols, holt, hoot, hose, host, hots, lest, lets, loos, loot, lose, lost, loth.
	Words containing the letters "e-h-l-o-o-s-t"
	+1 letter: hooklets, lothsome, posthole, potholes, theologs, toeholds, toolshed.
	+2 letters: boltholes, hollowest, holotypes, holystone, hoteldoms, knotholes, loathsome, portholes, postholes, stokehold, tollhouse, toolheads, toolhouse, toolsheds, toothless.
	+3 letters: chocolates, ethologies, ethologist, foolishest, halogetons, holystoned, holystones, lithopones, nonhostile, orthoclase, phonolites, photocells, photolyses, photolyzes, pilothouse, potholders, rheologist, rhodolites, schoolmate, schooltime, stokeholds, telephotos, theologies, theologise, theologues, tollhouses, toolhouses, touchholes, typhlosole.
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