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Mongolo-

Mongolo- is the combining form of Mongolia.

Meaning of Mongolia

Proper noun

Mongolia

  1. A country in East Asia. Capital and largest city: Ulaanbaatar.
    • The chemicals abandoned when the paper mill closed are seeping into the ground water and will eventually contaminate the lake, according to a study by the Irkutsk region’s Ministry of Natural Resources. Plans by Mongolia to dam the Selenga River, which flows into the lake, are also a Russian...2017 March 13, Neil MacFarquhar, “A Russian Lake’s Future Hangs on Tourists and Toilets”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Mar 2017, Europe
    Synonyms:
    Outer Mongolia
  2. (historical) A Mongolian-speaking geographic region in East Asia, including the country of Mongolia (Outer Mongolia), the autonomous region of Inner Mongolia in China, and sometimes also Buryatia, Tuva and the Altai Republic in Russia.

Origin of Mongolo-

From Mongol + -o-; compare Afro-, Sino-, Turko-.

Questions about Mongolo-

What is Mongolo- the combining form of?
Mongolo- is the combining form of Mongolia.

Words near Mongolo- in the dictionary

  1. Mongolization
  2. Mongolize
  3. Mongolized
  4. Mongolizes
  5. Mongolizing
  6. Mongolo-
  7. mongoloid
  8. mongoloid fold
  9. mongoloid folds
  10. mongoloidism
  11. mongoloids

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Mongolo- (page history and authors); Mongolia (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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