What is another word for angola?

Pronunciation: [aŋɡˈə͡ʊlə] (IPA)

Angola is a country located in southwest Africa. The word Angola has various synonyms, including "Republic of Angola", "Angolan", and "Angolanese". These terms are commonly used to refer to people or things that are from or related to Angola. Another synonym for Angola is "Luanda," which is the capital city of the country. Additionally, the name "Angola" is thought to be derived from the word "ngola," which refers to a ruler or king. Therefore, "ruler of Angola" or "king of Angola" could be considered synonyms for the country's name. Overall, Angola remains an important part of African culture and history.

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What are the paraphrases for Angola?

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What are the hypernyms for Angola?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
  • Other hypernyms:

    African Country, republic, Portuguese-speaking country, Southern African nation, Sub-Saharan country.

What are the holonyms for Angola?

Holonyms are words that denote a whole whose part is denoted by another word.
  • holonyms for angola (as nouns)

    • location
      africa, organization of petroleum-exporting countries, opec.

What are the meronyms for Angola?

Meronyms are words that refer to a part of something, where the whole is denoted by another word.

Usage examples for Angola

It was here that we took one of the rashest and wildest and most desperate resolutions that ever was taken by man; this was to travel overland through the heart of the country, from the coast of Mozambique to the coast of angola or Guinea, a continent of land of at least 1,800 miles, in which journey we had excessive heats to support, impassable deserts to go over, no carriages, camels, or beasts of any kind to carry our baggage, innumerable wild and ravenous beasts to encounter, such as lions, leopards, tigers, lizards, and elephants; we had nations of savages to encounter, barbarous and brutish to the last degree; hunger and thirst to struggle with, and, in one word, terrors enough to have daunted the stoutest hearts that ever were placed in cases of flesh and blood.
"The World's Greatest Books, Vol III"
Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
And Gassendus in the Life of Peiresky, tells us they commonly hunt them too in angola in Africa, as I have already mentioned.
"A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients"
Edward Tyson
And I had not done it now, but upon the occasion of Dissecting this Orang-Outang, or wild Man, which being a Native of Africa, and brought from angola, tho' first taken higher up in the Country, as I was informed by the Relation given me; and observing so great a Resemblance, both in the outward shape, and, what surprized me more, in the Structure likewise of the inward Parts, to a Man; this Thought was easily suggested to me, That very probably this Animal, or some other such of the same Species, might give the first rise and occasion to the Stories of the Pygmies.
"A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients"
Edward Tyson

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