Congo
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- proper noun
- /ˈkɒŋɡoʊ/
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República Democrática del Congo
- She has explored the cultural context of medicine through field studies in Belgium, in the Congo, and beyond.
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Congo (DRC)
- eastern Congo
But Belgium's horrendous actions in the Congo would lead to this.
- But Belgium's horrendous actions in the Congo would lead to this.
- And the last job I was out in the Congo, we'd we'd capture these poachers.
- I've since moved back to Europe and she's still in Congo.
- And there's also all this, this war going on, one in the Congo and there's all these things going on.
- But it they basically, they do things like rescue child soldiers from the Congo, but provide them with homes and jobs afterwards.
- And those countries include India, Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Tanzania and China.
- And it talks about how he had sent these guys to Congo and they end up getting the Congolese end up kidnapping them.
- Like Elon Musk has to get a certain amount of nickel out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in order to make the batteries for his cars.
- They paid for a plane ticket to bring home Doctor Mukwege from overseas where he had taken refuge from eastern Congo.
- You know, the Belgian Congo is not the same thing as English.
- I just started working in the Congo, just just for six months or so now.
- I was thinking about what it would do to, you know, everyone that got myself killed in the Congo for just trying to run the length of Africa.
Examples
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I leave for the Belgian Congo within weeks.
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Even if I could have afforded the phone bills home, like most people in the Congo, my parents did not own a phone line.
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I just started working in the Congo, just just for six months or so now.
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- I was in Congo for the last year.
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Maybe we should go to the Congo.
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I carried out my ministry in the Congo.
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Josephine actually went to the Congo last year.
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We need to have companies invest in places like Iraq, invest in places like the Congo, invest in places like Afghanistan.
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In Myanmar and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the militaries rule their states more directly.
Academic text (2000) -
I just returned from a mission in the Congo, where I learned about its diverse cultures.
Synonyms
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A large country in central Africa with many rivers and valuable minerals
Compounds
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A former Belgian colony in central Africa that became the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1960
A large country in central Africa with many rivers and valuable minerals
- US
A thin water animal that looks like an eel and has two pairs of legs that lives in muddy water
- Specialized
A hard sticky substance from trees in Africa used to make varnish and glue
- US
A long thin water animal like an eel with tiny legs that lives in muddy pools in the southern US
- Specialized
A serious disease caused by a virus spread by ticks, with high fever and bleeding
- Specialized
A large family of languages spoken across much of Africa south of the Sahara, like Swahili and Yoruba
Surface Forms
Etymology
Congo for the Democratic Republic of the Congo also comes from the name of the Kongo people and the big river. Belgium used that name when it ruled the area, and today the independent country still uses the name Congo.