angola
[æŋˈɡəʉlə]
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.34 in modern English
7
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
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A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
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A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
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A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
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The Louisiana State Penitentiary.
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An unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States.
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A city, the county seat of Steuben County, Indiana, United States.
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An unincorporated community in Labette County, Kansas, United States.
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A village in the town of Evans, Erie County, New York, United States.
Example Sentences
- "Social assistance payments are being digitized for the first time under Angola’s first poverty-targeted cash transfer project, Kwenda, which started in May 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments initiative, the World Bank’s Finance, Competitiveness & Innovation Global Practice, or FCI, and the Social Protection and Jobs engagements in Angola have come together to advance the agenda on payments digitization."
- "“Who wanna get stuck in Angola with Lana Lee? She was bad enough on the outside. Shit.”"
- "In 2021, a judge found that Angola was providing inadequate medical care to its incarcerated population."
Etymology
Etymology tree Kimbundu ngolader. Portuguese Angolabor. English Angola From Portuguese (Reino de) Angola (“(kingdom of) Angola”), from Kimbundu ngola, title held by native kings at the time of the Portuguese colonization in the 15th century AD. Compare Kituba ngolo (“strength”). First attested in c. 1595. The Louisiana State Penitentiary is named "Angola" after the Angola slave plantation it replaced, which was named after the country, from which many enslaved people in Louisiana had been taken.
Origin
- Source language: Portuguese
- First known use: First attested in c. 1595
Word Breakdown
- Root: Angola, ngola
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: [æŋˈɡəʉlə]
- British English: [æŋˈɡəʊlə]
Inflected Forms
Angolas (plural)
Derived Forms
Phrases
Countries of the world
Frequently Paired Words
Countries of the world