Definition of Kasai River

1. Noun. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.

Exact synonyms: Kasai, River Kasai
Group relationships: Angola, Republic Of Angola, Belgian Congo, Congo, Democratic Republic Of The Congo, Zaire
Generic synonyms: River

Lexicographical Neighbors of Kasai River

Kartagener's syndrome
Kartagener's triad
Kartagener syndrome
Kartik
Kartikeya
Karttika
Karttikeya
Kartu
Kartveli
Kartvelian
Kartvelians
Kartvelology
Karuk
Karuks
Kasabach
Kasai River (current term)
Kasai operation
Kasbarian
Kasbaryan
Kasetsart
Kashag
Kashaya
Kashgar
Kashi
Kashia
Kashin-Beck disease
Kashin-Bek disease
Kashiwabara
Kashkai
Kashmir

Literary usage of Kasai River

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pioneering in Central Africa by Samuel Phillips Verner (1903)
"The Catastrophe in the Kasai River. IT WAS the historic Fourth of July. Everything was ready for our departure. The sky was clear; the sun overhead sent his ..."

2. Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica (ninth Edition): A Dictionary of Arts (1891)
"... the route to Leopoldville follows the old ivory Westward lies the great Kasai River, which with its route which, passing from the interior by Lute'te', ..."

3. An African Adventure by Isaac Frederick Marcosson (1921)
"After spreading the gospel in China and elsewhere, they settled down in this lonely spot on the Kasai River. I was immediately impressed with the difference ..."

4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1911)
"... 22* 10' E. Lake Dilolo was at one time believed to communicate with the Kasai river, one of the great affluents of the Congo flowing north-west, ..."

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