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Kinshasan

Kinshasan adjective: of or relating to Kinshasa, capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Adjective

Kinshasan (comparative more Kinshasan, superlative most Kinshasan)

  1. Of or relating to Kinshasa, capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Noun

Kinshasan (plural Kinshasans)

  1. A native or inhabitant of Kinshasa.
    • This initiative gave birth to an urban movement, the […] SAPE: a way of expressing an identity that was antipoverty, antidepression, and antipower (because it opposed the abas-cost, the uniform imposed by Mobutu) for thousands of young Kinshasans, as well as for Brazzavillians on the other side of...2002, Frank Tenaille, translated by Steven Toussaint and Hope Sandrine, Music Is the Weapon of the Future: Fifty Years of African Popular Music, Chicago, IL: Lawrence Hill Books, →ISBN, page 182

Forms of Kinshasan

Adjective
comparativemore Kinshasan
superlativemost Kinshasan
Noun
pluralKinshasans

Origin of Kinshasan

From Kinshasa + -an.

Questions about Kinshasan

What does Kinshasan mean?
Kinshasan means of or relating to Kinshasa, capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
What part of speech is Kinshasan?
Kinshasan can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near Kinshasan in the dictionary

  1. kinsfolks
  2. Kinsha
  3. Kinsha Kiang
  4. Kinshakiang
  5. Kinshasa
  6. Kinshasan
  7. Kinshasans
  8. kinship
  9. kinships
  10. kinsider
  11. Kinsinger

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