say it: nahy-JIR-ee-uh
nigeria is a noun meaning "a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country". It carries one recorded sense.
a republic in West Africa on the Gulf of Guinea; gained independence from Britain in 1960; most populous African country
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nigeria come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.