Kongo

[ kong-goh ]

/ ˈkɒŋ goʊ /

noun, plural Kon·gos, (especially collectively) Kon·go for 1.

a member of an indigenous people living in west-central Africa along the lower course of the Congo River.

Also called Kikongo. the Bantu language of the Kongo people, used as a lingua franca in the lower Congo River basin.

Example sentences from the Web for kongo

The land on either side of this river for many miles is called the Kongo Valley.

Big People and Little People of Other Lands |Edward R. Shaw
Andrew Battell, fortunately, has left behind him a fairly circumstantial record of what he experienced in Kongo and Angola.

The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battell |Andrew Battell
In the south the Kongo dialects melt imperceptibly into the closely-allied Angola language.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 |Various
The Kongo has a long stretch of navigable water, but is interrupted by rapids below Stanley Pool.

Commercial Geography |Jacques W. Redway

Dictionary and Grammar of the Kongo Language, 1887, p. xxiii.

Man, Past and Present |Agustus Henry Keane

British Dictionary definitions for kongo

Kongo

/ (ˈkɒŋɡəʊ) /

noun

plural -gos or -go a member of a Negroid people of Africa living in the tropical forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaïre), Congo Brazzaville, and Angola

the language of this people, belonging to the Bantu group of the Niger-Congo family

BROWSE DICTIONARY

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Kongo

noun, plural Kon·gos, (especially collectively) Kon·go for 1.

Example sentences from the Web for kongo

British Dictionary definitions for kongo

noun