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ZAIRE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960
Synonyms:
Belgian Congo; Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Zaire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)
Meronyms (parts of "Zaire"):
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)
Nyiragongo; 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 "Zaire"):
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 ("Zaire" 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)
Derivation:
Zairean (of or relating to or characteristic of Zaire or its people)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The basic unit of money in Zaire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("zaire" is a kind of...):
Zairese monetary unit (monetary unit in Zaire)
Meronyms (parts of "zaire"):
likuta (100 makuta equal 1 zaire in Zaire)
