congou, congo, congou tea, English breakfast tea
(noun) black tea grown in China
Congo, Republic of the Congo, French Congo
(noun) a republic in west-central Africa; achieved independence from France in 1960
Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zaire, Belgian Congo
(noun) a republic in central Africa; achieved independence from Belgium in 1960
Congo, Congo River, Zaire River
(noun) a major African river (one of the world’s longest); flows through Congo into the South Atlantic
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Congo
A country in Central Africa. Capital: Brazzaville. Official name: Republic of the Congo.
A country in Central Africa. Capital: Kinshasa. Official name: Democratic Republic of the Congo.
A large river in Africa which flows for about 4,380 km (2,720 miles) to the Atlantic Ocean in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
• (country with Brazzaville as capital): Congo-Brazzaville
• (country with Kinshasa as capital): Congo-Kinshasa, DR Congo, (formerly) Zaire, Former Zaire
Congo (plural Congos)
(informal) Congregationalist
• cogon
congo (countable and uncountable, plural congos or congoes)
Alternative form of congou: a kind of Chinese black tea.
• cogon
Source: Wiktionary
Con"go, Con"gou, n. Etym: [Chin. kung-foo labor.]
Definition: Black tea, of higher grade (finer leaf and less dusty) than the present bohea. See Tea. Of black teas, the great mass is called Congou, or the "well worked", a name which took the place of the Bohea of 150 years ago, and is now itself giving way to the term "English breakfast tea." S. W. Williams.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
22 February 2025
(noun) the use of closed-class words instead of inflections: e.g., ‘the father of the bride’ instead of ‘the bride’s father’
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
