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# kongo

«kongo» in Mova's school dictionary: **a people of Central Africa who live in Angola, the…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (Kongo; the Kongo people, the Kingdom of Kongo); adjective (Kongo art)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The Kongo are a people of Central Africa who live in Angola, the Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kongo/#m1)

2) The Kingdom of Kongo was a large African kingdom on the Atlantic coast from about 1390 to the 1800s. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kongo/#m2)

3) Kongo (Kikongo) is the language of the Kongo people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kongo/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

Met in history lessons about African kingdoms and the Atlantic slave trade, and in geography; the Congo River and the countries named Congo take their name from the Kongo.

### examples

- The Kingdom of Kongo traded with Portugal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kongo/#x1)
- Many Kongo people speak Kikongo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kongo/#x2)
- Kongo artists carved beautiful wooden figures. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kongo/#x3)
- The Congo River is named after the Kongo people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kongo/#x4)
- The king of Kongo wrote letters to the king of Portugal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kongo/#x5)
- We read a folk tale told by the Kongo people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kongo/#x6)

### note

A name, so capital K. Historians often spell the old kingdom «Kongo» with a K to keep it apart from today's countries spelled «Congo». The Kongo are a people, not a country.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «kongo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/K/kongo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.