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angola
/æŋˈɡoʊlə/
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What does angola mean?
noun
- Synonym of angora (“type of cat”).
proper noun
- A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
- The People's Republic of Angola, from 1975 to 1992.
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proper noun
- The Louisiana State Penitentiary.
- An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
- A city, the county seat of Steuben County, Indiana, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas, United States.
- A village in the town of Evans, Erie County, New York, United States.
- (historical) A former colony of Portugal, Portuguese Angola, also known as Portuguese West Africa and officially the State of West Africa, from 1575 to 1975.
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IPA pronunciation
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The Angola and wove-silk waistcoats have been recommended as substitutes, but there is nothing equal to the old-fashioned Welsh flannel.
For the long run, Angola has the advantage of rich natural resources in addition to oil, notably gold, diamonds, and arable land.
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In Angola the boys "live for a month under the care of a fetich-priest, passing their time in drum-beating, a wild sort of singing, and rat-hunting."
They discovered the Madeiras, the Canaries, the Azores, the Cape de Verd islands, the coast of Guinea, that of Loango, Congo, Angola, and Benguela, and, finally, the Cape of Good Hope.
Stopping over night at Angola I proceed to Buffalo next morning, catching the first glimpse of that important " seaport of the lakes," where, fifteen miles across the bay, the wagon-road is almost licked by the swashing waves; and entering the city over a " misfit" plank-road, off which I am almost upset by the most audaciously indifferent woman in the world.