Angola
Syllables: An·go·la/æŋˈɡoʊlə/UK[æŋˈɡəʊlə]
Angola proper noun: a country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
Proper noun
Angola
- A country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
- Social assistance payments are being digitized for the first time under Angola’s first poverty-targeted cash transfer project, Kwenda, which started in May 2020 as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Through the Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments initiative, the World Bank’s Finance...2022 March 15, “Government-to-Person (G2P) Payments: How is Angola Reaching the Poor and Vulnerable During COVID-19?”, in World Bank, United States, archived from the original on 06 Sep 2025
- 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 Louisiana State Penitentiary.
- “Who wanna get stuck in Angola with Lana Lee? She was bad enough on the outside. Shit.”1963 (date written), John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces, London: Penguin Books, published 1980 (1981 printing), →ISBN
- In 2021, a judge found that Angola was providing inadequate medical care to its incarcerated population.2025 September 3, Hannah Rabinowitz, Devon M. Sayers, “Trump administration to open new ICE facility at notorious Louisiana prison”, in CNN
- 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 the town of Evans, Erie County, New York, United States.
Noun
Angola (plural Angolas)
Angola meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
Angola in Hindi
- country in Southern Africa
- अंगोला aṅgolā
Angola in Tamil
- country in Southern Africa
- அங்கோலா aṅkōlā
Angola in Urdu
- country in Southern Africa
- انگولا aṅgolā
Angola in Bengali
- country in Southern Africa
- অ্যাঙ্গোলা êṅgōla
More languagesFewer languages
- Angola in Telugu
- అంగోలా aṅgōlā
- Angola in Malayalam
- അംഗോള aṅgōḷa
- Angola in Kannada
- ಅಂಗೋಲಾ aṅgōlā
- Angola in Gujarati
- અંગોલા aṅgolā
- Angola in Sinhala
- ඇන්ගෝලා ængōlā
- Angola in Assamese
- এংগোলা eṅgüla
- Angola in Tagalog
- Anggola
- Angola in Arabic
- أَنْغُولَا ʔanḡōlā
- Angola in Malay
- Angola
- Angola in Indonesian
- Angola
- Angola in Persian
- آنگولا ângulâ
- Angola in Thai
- แองโกลา ɛng-goo-lâa
- Angola in Vietnamese
- Ăng-gô-la
- Angola in Myanmar
- အင်ဂိုလာ angguila
Synonyms of Angola
Forms of Angola
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Origin of Angola
From Portuguese (Reino de) Angola (“(kingdom of) Angola”), from Kimbundu ngola, title held by native kings at the time of the Portuguese colonization in the 15th century AD. Compare Kituba ngolo (“strength”). First attested in c. 1595. The Louisiana State Penitentiary is named "Angola" after the Angola slave plantation it replaced, which was named after the country, from which many enslaved people in Louisiana had been taken.
Words formed from Angola
Phrases with Angola
Words that rhyme with Angola
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- granola
- idola
- Iola
- minneola
- pianola
- stola
- tombola
- Akmola
- arteriola
- blogola
- boffola
- bola
- braciola
- Carniola
- cashola
- caveola
- Coca Cola
- Coca-Cola
- crapola
- eidola
- gayola
- gladiola
- gorgonzola
- hemiola
- hideola
- Hispaniola
- hola
- lola
- mandola
- mineola
- mola
- mola mola
- Motorola
- moviola
- Ndola
- nola
- payola
- Pensacola
- plugola
- Poehler
- pseudovariola
- pyrola
- salsola
- scagliola
- Shinola
- shola
- solah
- tetracola
Questions about Angola
- What does Angola mean?
- Angola means a country in Southern Africa. Official name: Republic of Angola. Capital and largest city: Luanda.
- What is Angola in Hindi?
- Angola in Hindi is अंगोला (aṅgolā). See Angola meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is Angola?
- Angola can be a proper noun or a noun.
- How do you pronounce Angola?
- Angola is pronounced /æŋˈɡoʊlə/.
Words near Angola in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: Angola (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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