angola
IPA: æŋgˈoʊɫʌ
Root Word: Angola
noun
- A country in Southern Africa.
- (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
- The People's Republic of Angola, from 1975 to 1992
- The Republic of Angola, since 1992
- 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 Erie County, New York, United States.
- Synonym of angora (cat).
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Examples of "angola" in Sentences
- In Cowen's time it was called angola and its still angola.
- (Actually he is President Medvedev.) (tags: russia egypt nigeria namibia angola)
- After delivering cases of weapons to Unita, the commander of the fifth military region in angola gave him permission to keep 14 AK-47 rifles.
- Almost every woman, however numerous her family, has a nursery of birds, an angola, and two or three lap-dogs, who share her cares with her husband and children.
- The next six cases (2-7) are filled with the varieties of the Vulture, including the American, carrion, black, and king vultures; the South African sociable vulture; the angola vulture from Congo; and, towering above all, the great condor of the Andes, with his immense breadth of wing.
- Malawi is anticipated to have adequate stocks for its consumption, while tanzania would face a 750 000 maize deficit due to the drought, angola a 410 000 tonnes deficit on account of mid-season dry spell and in zambia, a 223 000 tonnes deficit due to excessive rains and lack of fertilisers.
- Another pays his court to a belle in her climacteric, by bringing _gimblettes_ [A sort of gingerbread.] to the favourite lap-dog, or attending, with great assiduity, the egresses and regresses of her angola, who paces slowly out of the room ten times in an hour, while the door is held open by the complaisant Frenchman with a most respectful gravity.
- Before we fell comfortably asleep on feather beds, those formidable bones which you see in our museum were flying in the air; the cup which I now hold in my hand was a portion of the clay on which you sit; the canoe with which you ran away the other day was a live seal; the hats that we wear, were running about the fields in the form of angola rabbits.
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