LAKE TANGANYIKA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Lake Tanganyika mean? 

• LAKE TANGANYIKA (noun)
  The noun LAKE TANGANYIKA has 1 sense:

1. the longest lake in the world in central Africa between Tanzania and Congo in the Great Rift Valley

  Familiarity information: LAKE TANGANYIKA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAKE TANGANYIKA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The longest lake in the world in central Africa between Tanzania and Congo in the Great Rift Valley

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

Lake Tanganyika; Tanganyika

Instance hypernyms:

lake (a body of (usually fresh) water surrounded by land)

Holonyms ("Lake Tanganyika" 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)