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slave coast

Word Rarity Uncommon

Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.20 in modern English

Syllables
slave -coast
IPA
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

A region of West Africa on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean from the Volta River to the Lagos Lagoon or Niger Delta, now comprising the coasts of Togo, Benin, and parts of Nigeria.

name

A former colony of the Netherlands comprising its trading outposts along the Slave Coast.

Etymology

A calque of Portuguese Costa dos Escravos from the area's importance as a source of African slaves to European traders from the 16th to 19th centuries. As a Dutch territory, a calque of Dutch Slavenkust.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Frequently Paired Words

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Synonyms

Dutch Slave Coast

Questions

What does slave coast mean?
A region of West Africa on the coast of the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean from the Volta River to the Lagos Lagoon or Niger Delta, now comprising the coasts of Togo, Benin, and parts of Nigeria.
Where does slave coast come from?
It is traced to Dutch.

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