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Lybia

Lybia is the archaic form of Libya.

Meaning of Libya

Proper noun

Libya

  1. A country in North Africa. Capital: Tripoli.
    • He is one of the tens of thousands of Chadians who fled last year’s fighting in Libya and are now back in their homeland.2012 April 18, David McKenzie, “Chad’s migrant workers pay price for Libya conflict”, in CNN
  2. (historical) Africa; that is, the part of North Africa known in classical antiquity.

Words formed from Lybia

Questions about Lybia

What is Lybia the archaic form of?
Lybia is the archaic form of Libya.

Words near Lybia in the dictionary

  1. lybards
  2. Lybarger
  3. Lybargers
  4. Lybbert
  5. Lybberts
  6. Lybia
  7. Lybian
  8. Lybian Arab Jamahiriya
  9. Lybians
  10. Lybrand
  11. Lybrands

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Lybia (page history and authors); Libya (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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