KASAI RIVER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Kasai River mean? 

• KASAI RIVER (noun)
  The noun KASAI RIVER has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: KASAI RIVER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• KASAI RIVER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Kasai; Kasai River; River Kasai

Instance hypernyms:

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

Holonyms ("Kasai River" is a part of...):

Angola; Republic of Angola (a republic in southwestern Africa on the Atlantic Ocean; achieved independence from Portugal in 1975 and was the scene of civil war until 1990)

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