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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A member of a people living in west-central Africa along the lower Congo River.
  • noun A Bantu language of the Kongo used as a lingua franca in the southern Republic of the Congo, the western Democratic Republic of the Congo, and northern Angola.

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  • proper noun A Bantu language (or family of languages) of Central Africa

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  • noun the Bantu language spoken by the Kongo living in the tropical forests of Zaire and Congo and Angola

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