Côte d'Ivoire
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3.8
- proper noun
- /koʊt dɪˈvɔr/
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Costa de Marfil
- The capital city of Côte d'Ivoire is Yamoussoukro, which is known for its unique architecture.
- Côte d'Ivoire and Nigeria
- Senufo in Côte d'Ivoire
- Côte d'Ivoire and Burkina
For example, my paper with Chris Yudhry is from Cote d'Ivoire.
- For example, my paper with Chris Yudhry is from Cote d'Ivoire.
Examples
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After World War II, Côte d'Ivoire was one of independent Africa's stellar success stories.
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Guinea might well serve as a cultural corridor since it borders Senegal, Mali, Côte d'Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Liberia.
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I'm not going to use his name, but he was from Cote d'Ivoire, Ivory Coast.
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After the late 1980s, the economy of Côte d'Ivoire went from bad to worse.
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However, the World Bank failed to require the Côte d'Ivoire government to implement them.
Academic text (1998) -
The linguaculture of someone from Côte d'Ivoire is quite different from someone from Paris.
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Yet a few months later, an agreement was reached, and Côte d'Ivoire received its Third Structural Adjustment Loan.
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For a long time, France considered Côte d'Ivoire's one-party system an appropriate model for other Francophone states.
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Nigeria's main export is petroleum, and Côte d'Ivoire's is cocoa.
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Structurally, Nigeria is a federal state; Côte d'Ivoire is more centralized around its president, Houphouët-Boigny.
Academic text (1993)
Synonyms
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2.6
A country in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea called Côte d'Ivoire
A country in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea known for cocoa production
Surface Forms
Morphology
Côte + d'Ivoire
The phrase is a literal composition of French words 'côte' (coast) + 'ivoire' (ivory) meaning 'coast of ivory', which directly corresponds to the country name 'Ivory Coast'. Because the country sense is directly derivable from the constituents and has clear cross-linguistic equivalents, a learner who knows the parts would readily infer its meaning as a place name.
Etymology
Côte d'Ivoire literally means 'coast of ivory' in French: Côte means coast and Ivoire means ivory, because long ago traders bought and shipped elephant ivory from that stretch of coast. That's why the country's English name is often 'Ivory Coast' today.