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Leopoldville

Kinshasa \Kinshasa\ prop. n. the capital city of Zaire, formerly named Leopoldville.

Syn: Leopoldville.

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Leopoldville

Leopoldville may refer to:

  • LĂ©opoldville, the capital of the Belgian colony of Congo, before it was renamed Kinshasa in 1966
  • SS LĂ©opoldville, a number of ships by this name

Usage examples of "leopoldville".

He was aware the CIA still had an open-ended hit contract out on Bruce Rossiter, who had shot an American in a bar in Leopoldville because the man was staring at him.

Steaming through the watery expanse separating the mainland and the Isle of Wight, Leopoldville and her convoy met the destroyer escorts.

A commerfant had arrived by truck from Leopoldville, and in the rainy season that was a miracle not to be snubbed.

The last we knew, when Father and I took off on the plane for Leopoldville, she was still trying to rise to the occasion.

The second phase of three weeks was dedicated to finding the World War II troop transport Leopoldville and the famed Confederate raider Alabama, which went down after a furious battle with Union frigate Kearsarge, off Cherbourg.

Hunley, a confederate submarine-the first to sink a ship in battle, The Leopoldville, a troop transport torpedoed by a German u-boat on Christmas eve, 1944 and the discovery of U-20, the german sub that sank the Lucitania in 1915.