Kenema

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proper noun

A city, the administrative centre of the Eastern Province, Sierra Leone.

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Meanings

proper noun
  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.
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APA

Kenema. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kenema

MLA

“Kenema.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kenema. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kenema,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kenema.

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