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KWANZA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A festival featuring African-American culture; celebrated between Christmas and New Year
Synonyms:
Kwanza; Kwanzaa
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("Kwanza" is a kind of...):
festival; fete (an organized series of acts and performances (usually in one place))
Sense 2
Meaning:
The basic unit of money in Angola
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("kwanza" is a kind of...):
Angolan monetary unit (monetary unit in Angola)
Meronyms (parts of "kwanza"):
lwei (100 lwei equal 1 kwanza in Angola)
