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rwanda

UK/ɹuˈændə/US/ɹuˈɑndə/
nounB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Rwanda is the land of a thousand hills, home of mountain gorillas. A road through Rwanda.

It is one of the most densely peopled countries in Africa and almost entirely hilly. Rwanda banned plastic bags in 2008 and searches luggage for them at the airport.

Original: Unknown Vector: Zscout370 · Public domain

Definitions of rwanda

  1. 1nounrwandaThe land of a thousand hills, home of mountain gorillas.B2

    “Rwanda protects the gorillas on the volcanoes in the north.”

rwanda is a country.

Where it comes from

  1. rw

    u Rwānda

  2. English

    Rwanda

  3. English, today

    rwanda

Built from

  • anda · rw — to expand

Rwanda Borrowed from rw u Rwānda. From rw u Rwanda from the archaic verb anda (“to expand”). Compare zu anda (“to multiply”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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