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Kenema

Kenema proper noun: a city, the administrative centre of the Eastern Province, Sierra Leone.

Proper noun

Kenema

  1. A city, the administrative centre of the Eastern Province, Sierra Leone.
    • The Kenema Government Hospital, in Kenema, Sierra Leone, is a scatter of low yellow-and-red-painted cinder-block buildings with rusty metal roofs.2014 October 20, Richard Preston, “The Ebola Wars: How genomics research can help contain the outbreak”, in The New Yorker
  2. A district (Kenema District) in Eastern Province, Sierra Leone. Capital: Kenema.

Questions about Kenema

What does Kenema mean?
Kenema means a city, the administrative centre of the Eastern Province, Sierra Leone.
What part of speech is Kenema?
Kenema is a proper noun.

Words near Kenema in the dictionary

  1. Kenedy County
  2. Kenefick
  3. Keneficks
  4. Kenelm
  5. Kenelworth
  6. Kenema
  7. keneme
  8. kenemes
  9. kenesa
  10. kenesas
  11. Kenevan

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