REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Republic of the Congo mean? 

• REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (noun)
  The noun REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (noun)

Sense 1

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 "Republic of the Congo"):

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

Holonyms ("Republic of the 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)

 Context examples 

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)

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 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)