ANGOLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Angola mean? 

• ANGOLA (noun)
  The noun ANGOLA has 1 sense:

1. a republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975 and was the scene of civil war until 1990

  Familiarity information: ANGOLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANGOLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975 and was the scene of civil war until 1990

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Angola; Republic of Angola

Instance hypernyms:

African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Angola"):

Angolan capital; Luanda (port city on Atlantic coast; the capital and largest city of Angola)

Huambo; Nova Lisboa (a city in the mountains in western Angola)

Lobito (a seaport on the Atlantic coast of Angola)

Kasai; Kasai River; River Kasai (a river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo)

Zambezi; Zambezi River (an African river; flows into the Indian Ocean)

Meronyms (members of "Angola"):

Angolan (a native or inhabitant of Angola)

Herero (a member of a pastoral Bantu people living in Namibia, Botswana, and Angola)

Holonyms ("Angola" is a part of...):

Africa (the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean)

Holonyms ("Angola" is a member of...):

OPEC; Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum)

Derivation:

Angolan (of or relating to or characteristic of Angola or its people)

 Context examples 

A country in southwestern Africa, bordering the South Atlantic Ocean, between Angola and South Africa.

(Namibia, NCI Thesaurus)

A country in Central Africa, northeast of Angola.

(Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A country in central Africa, northeast of Angola.

(Congo, the Democratic Republic of the, NCI Thesaurus)

The proteins are from Ebola virus (Kikwit strain), Sudan virus (Boniface strain, which also causes Ebola virus disease), Marburg virus (Angola strain) and Lassa virus (Josiah strain).

(Study vaccine protects monkeys against four types of hemorrhagic fever viruse, National Institutes of Health)