Congo

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. A country of central Africa astride the equator. Inhabited originally by Pygmy peoples and later by migrating Bantu and Nilotic groups, the region came under the control of Leopold II of Belgium in the late 1870s and was annexed outright in 1908. Full independence was achieved in 1960. Army general Mobutu Sese Seko took control of the country in 1965, ruling until his ouster by rebel forces in 1997. Kinshasa is the capital and the largest city. Population: 65,800,000.
2. A country of west-central Africa with a short coastline on the Atlantic Ocean. It was part of French Equatorial Africa before becoming independent in 1960. A Marxist state was established in 1970, but in the early 1990s Marxism was abandoned in favor of a multiparty system, and a new constitution was adopted. Brazzaville is the capital and the largest city. Population: 3,800,000.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Same as congo-eel.
2. n. A member of the race of negroes indigenous to Congo, a country of western Africa, bordering on the Atlantic ocean and the river Congo.
3. n. [l. c] [Cuban congo.] A kind of African dance. See the extracts.

Wiktionary

1. n. Country in Central Africa with Brazzaville as capital. Official name: Republic of the Congo.
2. n. Country in Central Africa with Kinshasa as capital (formerly Zaire). Official name: Democratic Republic of the Congo.
3. n. A large river in Africa which flows for about 4,380 km (2,720 miles) to the Atlantic Ocean in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a major African river (one of the world's longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic
2. n. black tea grown in China
3. n. a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960
4. n. a republic in west-central Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960