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CONGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Congo mean? 

CONGO (noun)
  The noun CONGO has 4 senses:

1. a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960play

2. a major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlanticplay

3. a republic in west-central Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960play

4. black tea grown in Chinaplay

  Familiarity information: CONGO used as a noun is uncommon.


 Dictionary entry details 


CONGO (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Belgian Congo; Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Zaire

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Congo"):

Nyiragongo (an active volcano in eastern Congo)

Lake Edward (a lake in the Great Rift Valley between Congo and Uganda)

Kivu; Lake Kivu (a lake in the mountains of central Africa between Congo and Rwanda)

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)

Congo; Congo River; Zaire River (a major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic)

Nyamuragira (an active volcano in eastern Congo)

Elisabethville; Lubumbashi (a city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a copper mining center; former name (until 1966) was Elisabethville)

Kinshasa; Leopoldville (the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville)

Kananga; Luluabourg (a city in southwestern Congo; former name (until 1966) was Luluabourg)

Goma (a city in eastern Congo at the northern end of Lake Kivu near the border with Rwanda)

Meronyms (members of "Congo"):

Chiluba; Luba (a member of a Bantu people in southeastern Congo)

Congolese (a native or inhabitant of the Republic of the Congo)

Zairean; Zairese (a native or inhabitant of Zaire)

Holonyms ("Congo" 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)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Congo; Congo River; Zaire River

Instance hypernyms:

river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek))

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

Belgian Congo; Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Zaire (a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960)


Sense 3

Meaning:

A republic in west-central Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Congo; French Congo; Republic of the Congo

Instance hypernyms:

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

Meronyms (parts of "Congo"):

Brazzaville (the capital and largest city of the Republic of the Congo)

Holonyms ("Congo" 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)


Sense 4

Meaning:

Black tea grown in China

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

congo; congou; congou tea; English breakfast tea

Hypernyms ("congo" is a kind of...):

black tea (fermented tea leaves)


 Context examples 


The study found a gradually decreasing trend in Congo rainforest greenness.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)

A severe, often fatal disease in humans caused by the Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever virus (HEMORRHAGIC FEVER VIRUS, CRIMEAN-CONGO).

(Congo-Crimean Hemorrhagic Fever, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It also emphasizes the critical role of tropical forests, such as those in the Amazon, Congo and Indonesia, as regions with the greatest potential to store additional carbon.

(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers obtained blood samples from a survivor of the 1995 Ebola outbreak in Kikwit, Democratic Republic of the Congo.

(Experimental Ebola antibody protects monkeys, NIH)

"The Congo is now facing conversion of pristine lands for agriculture. We want to know what that could mean for the carbon cycle."

(Tropical soil disturbance could be hidden source of carbon dioxide, National Science Foundation)

Recent Ebola virus disease (EVD) outbreaks, including the 2013-2016 epidemic that ravaged West Africa and the 2018 outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, highlight the need for licensed treatments for this often-deadly disease.

(Broadly acting antibodies found in plasma of Ebola survivors, National Institutes of Health)

In this great district the wild rubber tree flourishes, and has become, as in the Congo, a curse to the natives which can only be compared to their forced labor under the Spaniards upon the old silver mines of Darien.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A new analysis of NASA satellite data shows Africa's Congo rainforest, the second-largest tropical rainforest in the world, has undergone a large-scale decline in greenness over the past decade.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)

In an investigation of 19 sites in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, scientists discovered that heavily deforested areas leach organic carbon that is significantly older and more biodegradable than the organic carbon leached from densely forested regions.

(Tropical soil disturbance could be hidden source of carbon dioxide, National Science Foundation)

While this study looks specifically at the impact of a persistent drought in the Congo region since 2000, researchers say that a continued drying trend might alter the composition and structure of the Congo rainforest, affecting its biodiversity and carbon storage.

(NASA finds drought may take toll on Congo rainforest, NASA)



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