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Definition of: Sierra Leone
(sē·er′rä lā·ō′nā)
1. An independent state on the west coast of Africa; 27,925 square miles, mostly on the Sierra Leone Peninsula, extending 25 miles into the Atlantic; capital, Freetown: formerly a British dependency.
2. An estuary in western Sierra Leone, flowing 25 miles past Freetown to the Atlantic.
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