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Ruanda

Ruanda is the alternative form of Rwanda.

Meaning of Rwanda

Proper noun

Rwanda

  1. A country in East Africa.
    • The United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) warned there was a risk some migrants sent to Rwanda could be returned to countries from which they had fled. Kigali denied the allegations and accused UNHCR of lying.2025 May 5, “Rwanda in talks to receive migrants deported from US, foreign minister says”, in Reuters
  2. The standardized dialect of the Bantu language Rwanda-Rundi spoken in Rwanda.
    Synonyms:
    Kinyarwanda
  3. The genocide that occurred in Rwanda in 1994.
    • VINCENT: Have you ever heard of Rwanda?2004, Stuart Beattie, Collateral, DreamWorks Pictures

Words formed from Ruanda

Questions about Ruanda

What is Ruanda the alternative form of?
Ruanda is the alternative form of Rwanda.

Words near Ruanda in the dictionary

  1. Ruairi
  2. ruakh
  3. ruan
  4. ruana
  5. ruanas
  6. Ruanda
  7. Ruanda-Urundi
  8. Ruando-
  9. Ruane
  10. Ruanes
  11. Ruano

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Ruanda (page history and authors); Rwanda (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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