Kinshasan

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adjective

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

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Meanings

adjectiveKinshasan (comparative more Kinshasan, superlative most Kinshasan)

comparative more Kinshasan · superlative most Kinshasan

  1. Of or relating to Kinshasa, capital and largest city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
nounKinshasan (plural Kinshasans)

plural Kinshasans

  1. A native or inhabitant of Kinshasa.
    1 more example

    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 the Congo River.

    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

Origin

From Kinshasa + -an.

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APA

Kinshasan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kinshasan

MLA

“Kinshasan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kinshasan. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kinshasan,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kinshasan.

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