noun

• A country in East Africa.
• The Ethiopian Empire, from c. 1270 to 1974; Abyssinia.
• Italian Ethiopia, from 1936 to 1941.
• Provisional Military Government of Socialist Ethiopia, from 1974 to 1987; Derg.
• The Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, since 1987.
• (historical) Sub-Saharan Africa, especially the parts south of Egypt and along and east of the Nile.