burkina faso

1. 1.

   a desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa; was formerly Upper Volta under French rule but gained independence in 1960

   SynonymsUpper Volta

   Broadercountry

Questions about burkina faso

What does burkina faso mean?

burkina faso means "a desperately poor landlocked country in western Africa; was formerly Upper Volta under French rule but gained independence in 1960".

What is another word for burkina faso?

Close synonyms include Upper Volta. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is burkina faso a common word?

burkina faso is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.