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Definition of Honduras
1. Noun. A republic in Central America; achieved independence from Spain in 1821; an early center of Mayan culture.
Geographical relationships: Moranzanist Patriotic Front
Group relationships: Oas, Organization Of American States
Generic synonyms: Central American Country, Central American Nation
Group relationships: Central America
Terms within: Honduran Capital, Tegucigalpa, San Pedro Sula
Member holonyms: Honduran
Definition of Honduras
1. Proper noun. A country in Central America, officially the ''Republic of Honduras''. Capital: Tegucigalpa. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Honduras
Literary usage of Honduras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1884)
"Should I take steamer from San Francisco to Panama, cross the isthmus, and from
the Atlantic side enter Spanish Honduras? or had I better travel by steamer ..."
2. The New International Encyclopædia edited by Daniel Coit Gilman, Harry Thurston Peck, Frank Moore Colby (1903)
"The coast of Honduras was discovered by Columbus in 1502. ... The mines of Honduras
were valuable, but under Spanish government the colony developed slowly. ..."
3. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1887)
"Notes on a part of the Western Frontier of British Honduras. ... 17° 3' 40" to
17° 59' 27" N., a part of British Honduras concerning which all existing maps ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain), Norton Shaw, Francis Galton, William Spottiswoode, Clements Robert Markham, Henry Walter Bates, John Scott Keltie (1889)
"IN January last I made an excursion from British Honduras into Yucatan territory
... Bacalar is well known to the colonist of British Honduras, and several ..."
5. The Native Races of the Pacific States of North America by Hubert Howe Bancroft, Henry Lebbeus Oak, T. Arundel Harcourt, Albert Goldschmidt, Walter Mulrea Fisher, William Nemos (1874)
"This continental tract is a narrow, irregular, indented coast-country of volcanic
character, in which Guatemala and Honduras alone present any ..."
6. The American Journal of International Law by American Society of International Law (1916)
"THE NEUTRALITY OF Honduras AND THE QUESTION OF THE GULF OF FONSECA : The members
of the Central American Peace Conference, held at Washington in 1907, ..."
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