DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO

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

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

1. a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Belgian Congo; Congo; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Zaire

Instance hypernyms:

African country; African nation (any one of the countries occupying the African continent)

Meronyms (parts of "Democratic Republic of the Congo"):

Goma (a city in eastern Congo at the northern end of Lake Kivu near the border with Rwanda)

Kananga; Luluabourg (a city in southwestern Congo; former name (until 1966) was Luluabourg)

Kinshasa; Leopoldville (the capital of the Democratic Republic of the Congo on the Congo river opposite Brazzaville)

Elisabethville; Lubumbashi (a city in southeastern Congo near the border with Zambia; a copper mining center; former name (until 1966) was Elisabethville)

Nyamuragira; Nyiragongo (an active volcano in eastern Congo)

Congo; Congo River; Zaire River (a major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic)

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)

Kivu; Lake Kivu (a lake in the mountains of central Africa between Congo and Rwanda)

Lake Edward (a lake in the Great Rift Valley between Congo and Uganda)

Meronyms (members of "Democratic Republic of the Congo"):

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 ("Democratic 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)