Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim;
colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy in the early 1960s;
[syn: Algeria, Algerie, Democratic and Popular Republic of Algeria]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Algerie
n 1: a republic in northwestern Africa on the Mediterranean Sea
with a population that is predominantly Sunni Muslim;
colonized by France in the 19th century but gained autonomy
in the early 1960s [syn: Algeria, Algerie, Democratic
and Popular Republic of Algeria]