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Congo   /kˈɑŋgoʊ/   Listen
Congo

noun
1.
A republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960.  Synonyms: Belgian Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zaire.
2.
A major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic.  Synonyms: Congo River, Zaire River.
3.
A republic in west-central Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960.  Synonyms: French Congo, Republic of the Congo.
4.
Black tea grown in China.  Synonyms: congou, congou tea, English breakfast tea.



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"Congo" Quotes from Famous Books



... for this Baluba rhyme to Dr. and Mrs. William H. Sheppard, pioneer missionaries under the Southern Presbyterian Church. The little production comes from Congo, Africa. ...
— Negro Folk Rhymes - Wise and Otherwise: With a Study • Thomas W. Talley

... ideals been more completely attained. If the followers of Wilberforce and Clarkson, to whom the world is indebted for the great impulse against negro slavery, were to-day organized for the exploitation of the negroes on the Congo, or the Indians on the Amazon, or for carrying on the slave-trade secretly, without restriction or supervision, the condition of affairs could hardly be more singular than the dominance obtained by the physiological laboratory ...
— An Ethical Problem - Or, Sidelights upon Scientific Experimentation on Man and Animals • Albert Leffingwell

... at last—luckily for us we were not actually following him—after two years of wonderful but rather disillusioning adventure in mid-Asia and all Africa. He had seen the Congo and the Euphrates, the Ganges and the Nile, the Yang-tse-kiang and the Yenisei; he had climbed mountains in Abyssinia, in Siam, in Thibet and Afghanistan; he had shot big game in more than one jungle, and had been shot at by small brown men in more than one forest, ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon



Words linked to "Congo" :   Zairese, River Kasai, Goma, African nation, river, Zairean, Chiluba, Lake Edward, Lubumbashi, black tea, Brazzaville, Nyamuragira, Africa, Kasai, Kivu, African country, congo red, Lake Kivu, Luluabourg, Kananga, Leopoldville, Kinshasa, Nyiragongo, Elisabethville, Kasai River, Luba



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